Characters & Betrayals
This character is Hamlet’s closest friend and confidant.
Horatio
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
Hamlet
Hamlet stages this play to test Claudius' guilt.
The Mousetrap
Claudius uses these two people to spy on Hamlet.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Marcellus
This object symbolizes the theme of death when Hamlet speaks to it in a graveyard.
Yorick’s skull
This character betrays Hamlet by remarrying soon after King Hamlet’s death.
Gertrude
"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."
Hamlet
Claudius uses this method to kill King Hamlet.
Hamlet accidentally kills this character while arguing with his mother.
Polonius
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Gertrude
Hamlet rewrites a letter to order the deaths of these two people.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A flower plucked too soon, lost in the waves of sorrow.
Ophelia
"Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's ears, and exit."
The Mouth Trap
A letter changed, a fate reversed, two men doomed instead.
Hamlet rewriting the letter to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead.
A deadly duel, a poisoned prize, a kingdom lost.
Final fencing duel