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Summary: Act IV, scene vii. As Horatio speaks to the sailors, Claudius and a calmer Laertes discuss Polonius’s death. Claudius explains that he acted as he did, burying Polonius secretly and not punishing Hamlet for the murder, because both the common people and the queen love Hamlet very much.
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Hamlet’s letter to Claudius reveals that he has been “set naked on [Claudius’s] kingdom”—in other words, he’s returned to Denmark with no money or possessions. Hamlet asks to meet with the king the next day to explain his “sudden and strange return.”
10 Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother. Lives almost by his looks, and for myself—. My virtue or my plague, be it either which—. She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul, 15 That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her.
Act IV, Scene 7: Claudius and Laertes enter, discussing Polonius’s death. Laertes now agrees that Claudius is not at fault but wonders why he did not openly punish Hamlet. Claudius explains that ...
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2 cze 2020 · Synopsis: Claudius gets a letter from Hamlet announcing the prince’s return. Claudius enlists Laertes’s willing help in devising another plot against Hamlet’s life. Laertes agrees to kill Hamlet with a poisoned rapier in a fencing match. If he fails, Claudius will give Hamlet a poisoned cup of wine.
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