ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Shakespeare himself played what role in Hamlet?
A
Hamlet
B
King Claudius
C
The ghost
D
No one
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The ghost of Hamlet’s father is a character from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In the stage directions he is referred to as “Ghost". His name is also Hamlet, and he is referred to as King Hamlet to distinguish him from the Prince, his son and the protagonist of the story.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare Fun Fact According to Nicholas Rowe’s early biography, Shakespeare played the part of the ghost in Hamlet in what was described as “the top of his performance.” Are burnt and purged away.” Shakespeare made sparing use of ghosts in his plays, but when he used them, he made them memorable.

Detailed explanation-3: -In five William shakespeare’s plays, ghosts emerge, a ghost is an assassin in all but one of the plays and several other dramas of jacobean and elizabethan and wants someone to avenge their deaths, their job is to alert the play hero to retaliate on their kills and/or torment their killers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ghost of Hamlet’s Father (Hamlet) We know that the ghost of Hamlet’s father is spooky because Horatio tells us he is: when they see him, the soldiers Barnardo and Marcellus are “distilled almost to a jelly with the act of fear.” Now that’s spooky.

Detailed explanation-5: -Act 1, Scene 5 of Hamlet is the play’s renowned ghost scene. In this scene, Prince Hamlet encounters a ghost that claims to be his deceased father, King Hamlet. The ghost tells Hamlet that his brother, the new King Claudius, murdered him and married his wife, Gertrude.

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