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Hamlet 剧情表
Hamlet 剧情表
Act 2, Scene 1 Polonius send Reynaldo to spy on Laertes; Ophelia relates Hamlet’s irrational
behavior to Polonius and Polonius reports to the King.
Act 2, Scene 2 Claudius meets with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and order them to spy on
Hamlet to divine the reasons behind his madness; Polonius offers his answer for Hamlet’s
madness; Fortinbras’s activities are briefed. Polonius tries to talk with Hamlet and is mocked by
Hamlet; Hamlet meets his two friends and finds about their intention and tries to lead them astray;
Polonius brings the players in.; Hamlet meets the players and has one of them performed a scene,
from which he gets an idea of using play-within-play to test the truth of Ghost’s words. Second
Monologue “O, What a rogue and peasant slave am I.” (What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba.)
Act 4 (148—187)
Act 4, Scene 1 Claudius finds about Polonius’s death and decides to send Hamlet away
Act 4, Scene 2 Hamlet banters with his two friends and refuse to tell them where the body of
Polonius lies.
Act 4, Scene 3 Claudius talks with Hamlet and tries to find out the whereabouts of the body but
did not get anywhere. He gets suspicious and asks people to watch over Hamlet
Act 4, Scene 4. Hamlet meet Fortinbras and his captain, makes the famous monologue “How all
occasions do inform against me/ and spur my dull revenge!”
Act 4, Scene 5. Ophelia’s madness and reunion with Laertes
Act 4, Scene 6. Horatio’s talking with sailor who gives him information about Hamlet.
Act 4, Scene 7 Claudius tricks Laertes into a scheme of killing Hamlet; Ophelia’s drowning
Act 5 (188-
Act 5, Scene 1 The Graveyard scene; Hamlet meets Laertes, finds out Ophelia’s death and has a
row with Laertes.
Act 5, Scene 2 Horatio tries to persuade Hamlet out of his dangerous scheme but Hamlet declines
and reveals how he has escaped the killing intention of Claudius; Hamlet receives the invitation to
duel with Laertes; the final duel and everybody dies.