Polonius is spying on them from behind the (13) and when he hears the Queen cry out he shouts for help. When Hamlet sees his mother, he angrily tells her off for marrying Claudius so soon after his father's death. He decides not to kill him while he is repenting, because he doesn't want him to go to (12). But as he goes to speak with his mother he sees Claudius praying. Hamlet knows that Claudius is guilty and is determined to kill him now. During the performance, when it gets to the part in the play where the murder takes place, Claudius leaves abruptly and the play is stopped. He wants to test Claudius's reaction to this play and, if he looks (11), then it will spur him on to avenge his father's murder. But Hamlet guesses what they are doing and he is (9) to Ophelia and then leaves.Ī group of travelling players have arrived at Elsinore and Hamlet asks them to put on a special (10) about a man who murders the king and then steals his wife. Claudius and Polonius arrange a meeting between them so that they can spy on them and find out what is wrong with Hamlet. She has told Polonius that Hamlet has given her love letters in the past. Polonius thinks that he knows what the problem with Hamlet is: he thinks that he is (7) for his daughter, (8). They also ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to (6) on him to find out what is wrong. The King and Queen notice his strange behaviour and they try to cheer him up. He becomes distracted and (5) as he wonders what he should do.
He asks Hamlet not to forget this crime and to (4) his murder. The Ghost of Hamlet's dead father tells him that he was (3) in his sleep by his brother, Claudius, who has since become King and married the Queen. It refuses to speak to anyone except (2). GhostĪ (1) appears on the battlements of the castle of Elsinore. From memory, type in the numbered gaps in this brief summary of the play using the words below (some will need to be used more than once).
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