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Description:

Crack open your copy of Hamlet , because it's time to discuss what happens during the course of Act I. Sadly, it has nothing to do with ham. 

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Shakespeare's hamlet act 1 a'la shmoop

00:11

What happens during the course of act one So we

00:15

find out that gertrude and claudius who are hamlet's mother [Woman discussing Hamlet]

00:19

and ankle have got married Hamlet comes in all moby

00:23

They think he's just not over his father's death They

00:25

will get over it Also we're introduced to Ophelia whose

00:30

dad and brother are both trying to tell her that [Ophelias Dad and Brother appear]

00:33

even though she's kind of been seeing hamlin hamlin seems

00:35

interested She should keep her distance Stay away because men

00:37

only want one thing Declan the other thing that happens

00:42

right at the beginning as we learn out that fortinbras [Fortinbras marching with soldiers]

00:44

eyes playing to march into denmark and take revenge So

00:47

we learned that his dad has actually been killed by

00:49

hamlet's bad Also And that there that he's also trying

00:55

to get revenge So from the outset were kind of

00:57

confronted with these two princes both of whose dads have [Princes wielding swords]

01:00

died both of whom are trying to figure out how

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to get proper revenge What happens during the course of Act 1? [Question appears]

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