Hamlet Act 4 Scene 1 Summary

The scene starts off with Claudius and Gertrude talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when king Claudius asks about Hamlet and Gertrude tells the guards to go away so they can speak privately. she then tells him about her encounter with hamlet not to long ago. she tells him that he has gone mad and killed Polonius after hearing a voice from behind a curtain. Claudius notes that if he was the one behind the curtain Hamlet would have killed him. He then wonder how he could save his country from a public crisis without taking a hold on Denmark. He tells Gertrude that he must send Hamlet to England at once and think off a way off explaining his murdering of Polonius to the court and people of his country. Claudius then calls Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to go find hamlet and the scene ends.