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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Act V: Scene 2

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Brodwin, Leonora
Affiliation: Associate Professor Of English, St. John's University

Act V: Scene 2

The final scene takes place in a major hall of the castle at Elsinore
soon after the funeral. Hamlet enters in the act of explaining his recent
behavior to Horatio. He immediately comes to the important events on shipboard
which, in his letter to Horatio, he had said would make Horatio "dumb." In all
of his soliloquies, he precedes his discussion of events with generalizations
he has drawn from them. What he did on shipboard was rash and, ...

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