![]() ![]() Polonius persuades Claudius to take no action until Gertrude talks with Hamlet after the play, which is scheduled for that evening. After Hamlet exits, Claudius decides that Hamlet’s erratic behavior is not caused by love and announces a plan to send Hamlet on an embassy to England. Hamlet is at first courteous to Ophelia, but suddenly he turns on her: he denies having loved her, asks where her father is, attacks womankind, and tells her she should enter a nunnery. Act 3, scene 1 After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report their failure to find the cause of Hamlet’s madness, Polonius places Ophelia where he and Claudius may secretly observe a meeting between her and Hamlet.Hamlet hopes that when the players stage The Murder of Gonzago for the court, he can determine whether Claudius is guilty of King Hamlet’s death. Hamlet persuades one of them to deliver a speech, and recognizes, to his shame, that he has shown less intensity in avenging his father’s murder than the actor has done in performance. As they talk, a company of touring actors enters. When Hamlet himself enters, he is confronted first by Polonius and then by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, whom he quickly identifies as Claudius’s spies. Act 2, scene 2 Claudius and Gertrude set Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet, to spy on him.Polonius decides that Hamlet has been made insane by Ophelia’s refusing to see him. Ophelia enters, deeply disturbed about a visit she has just had from an apparently mad Hamlet. Act 2, scene 1 Polonius sends his servant Reynaldo to Paris to question Laertes’s acquaintances.Hamlet, horrified, vows to “remember” and swears his friends to secrecy about what they have seen. Saying that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s father, he demands that Hamlet avenge King Hamlet’s murder at the hands of Claudius. ![]()
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