FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Horatio
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King Claudius
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Ophelia
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Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hearing this, Polonius echoes her cries for help, revealing his hiding place in the process. Hamlet, thinking that Polonius is actually Claudius, stabs blindly through the curtain, killing Polonius on the spot.
Detailed explanation-2: -They both know that her father is hiding behind the curtain. Learn more about staging Hamlet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Polonius then suggests that he and Claudius hide themselves behind a needlework wall hanging so they can eavesdrop on the couple when Ophelia meets with Hamlet to return his love gifts. Claudius agrees, just as Hamlet enters reading. Polonius asks the King and Queen to leave them so that he may speak to Hamlet himself.
Detailed explanation-4: -Does Hamlet know they are being watched? Not at first; he figures it out when he hears a noise. Ophelia lies to him when he asks her where her father is.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why does Polonius hide behind the Queen’s curtain? Does she know he’s there? So he can spy on Hamlet and Gertrude’s conversation (which they planned that Hamlet was going to confess his feelings); she does know. When Hamlet enters Gertrude’s chamber, she starts to scold her son.