HAMLET ACT I SCENE II

Here's the sitch:

Hamlet's parents were the king and queen of Elsinore but King Hamlet died in battle. Less than two months after her husband's death, Queen Gertrude gets married to her brother-in-law: Claudius. Hamlet is pretty upset about how quickly his mother remarried.

• Hamlet talks to Claudius who notices he is still grieving over his father's death
• Hamlet hides his despisement for Claudius because he doesn't want to appear upset before him
• once alone, Hamlet vents his anger and reveals his feeling about his mother and Claudius
• Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo enter to tell Hamlet about what they saw the previous night
• Hamlet was intrigued but swallowed his excitement in front of the guards

HAMLET ACT I SCENE I

• two guards (Bernardo and Francisco) are swapping positions for the next shift in a castle platform in Elsinore
• Bernardo converses with Horatio and Marcellus who claim to have seen a ghost of some sort for the past few nights around the castle
• The ghost reappears and Horatio attempts to communicate with it but fails
• they conclude that the ghosts resembles King Hamlet and decide to alert young Hamlet of their findings the next day