FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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Claudius
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Horatio
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Hamlet
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Marcellus
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Detailed explanation-1: -A line spoken by Marcellus in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act I, scene iv.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marcellus is a guard at Elsinore, Barnardo’s companion on the midnight round. With him, he witnesses the apparition of the ghost. He convinces Horatio to join them for the watch on the third night. He knows more about ghosts than Barnardo, and known to Hamlet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio: Heaven will direct it.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
Detailed explanation-5: -The ghost appears and beckons Hamlet, who follows it. They all tell him not to go but he insists and threatens them with violence if they try and stop him. While he is away, one of the officers, Marcellus, commenting on what the ghost’s appearance may mean, observes, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”