The scene starts off with an unhappy hamlet having an argument with the players who are about to act out his father’s murder, he uses points like the players constant overacting and Shakespeare also gets though a couple of clever acting styles and traits that bother him like when the actors change lines. He then tells Horatio the actual plan of recreating his father’s death in the form off a play which will be shown in front of the king and queen and friends. as people arrive to the play it is seen that hamlet goes back into madness and insulting various people along the way including the players yet again by telling them to hurry up “Bid the players make haste”
All the characters then enter and everybody takes their seats, Hamlet strangely ask if he can sit on Ophelia lap which due to the events of act 3 scene 1 seems to contradict itself as he basically told her to go and to leave and go to a brothel or nunnery. as the play keeps on going the king and queen both become more and more concerned to the point where Claudius leaves when the poison is poured into the actor playing hamlets father. Hamlet tells Horatio that the ghost was telling the truth and that his uncle did kill his father. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter and request hamlets presence in front of he queen and the scene ends.
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