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Crack open your copy of Hamlet, because it's time to discuss what happens during the course of Act I. Sadly, it has nothing to do with ham.
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Crack open your copy of Hamlet , because it's time to discuss what happens during the course of Act I. Sadly, it has nothing to do with ham.
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Shakespeare's hamlet act 1 a'la shmoop
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What happens during the course of act one So we
- 00:15
find out that gertrude and claudius who are hamlet's mother [Woman discussing Hamlet]
- 00:19
and ankle have got married Hamlet comes in all moby
- 00:23
They think he's just not over his father's death They
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will get over it Also we're introduced to Ophelia whose
- 00:30
dad and brother are both trying to tell her that [Ophelias Dad and Brother appear]
- 00:33
even though she's kind of been seeing hamlin hamlin seems
- 00:35
interested She should keep her distance Stay away because men
- 00:37
only want one thing Declan the other thing that happens
- 00:42
right at the beginning as we learn out that fortinbras [Fortinbras marching with soldiers]
- 00:44
eyes playing to march into denmark and take revenge So
- 00:47
we learned that his dad has actually been killed by
- 00:49
hamlet's bad Also And that there that he's also trying
- 00:55
to get revenge So from the outset were kind of
- 00:57
confronted with these two princes both of whose dads have [Princes wielding swords]
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died both of whom are trying to figure out how
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to get proper revenge What happens during the course of Act 1? [Question appears]
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