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Hamlet (Theatre)

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Hamlet (Theatre)	comment	As the play is Older Than Steam and most twists in Shakespeare's plots are now widely known, all spoilers on this page are unmarked.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is one of Shakespeare's best known plays and certainly his most over-analyzed. It is one of the most influential works of literature ever written.Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark, whose uncle Claudius has ascended the throne after Hamlet's own father mysteriously passed away. Hamlet receives evidence that Claudius murdered the late king to seize power, and is commanded to exact Revenge, choosing to cover his behavior by faking insanity. As the play progresses, however, it becomes obvious that Hamlet is highly reluctant to follow through with the murder... and ambiguous as to how much of his madness is actually fake. Complicating matters are a number of other characters: Ophelia, the sometime object of Hamlet's affections; Polonius, Ophelia's father and Claudius's meddling royal chancellor; Gertrude, Hamlet's mother who has now married her brother-in-law; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet's college buddies now conscripted to spy on him; and Claudius himself, who is well aware that Hamlet is Denmark's rightful heirnote Typical rules of primogeniture say that the king's son takes the throne after him, even if the king has a brother and has started scheming to remove him from the picture.Shakespeare did not invent the story of Hamlet's quest to bring the murderer of his father to justice. The earliest surviving "record" is in the twelfth-century Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes"), by Saxo Grammaticus, wherein Hamlet—or Amleth (AmlÃ³Ã°i), as he's called in that version—is shown as a legendary figure who succeeds in destroying his uncle and becoming king, only to die in a later battle. The story was abbreviated and amended numerous times and had been presented as a play in English more than once when Shakespeare decided to tackle the story. By that time it had been changed almost beyond recognition—Hamlet's mother, who had originally been forced to marry her brother-in-law, was now an accessory to his usurpation of the throne, while Hamlet had been turned into a Christian and aged a number of years.But it is hardly the plot that has enraptured the play's generations of admirers. Hamlet devotees are generally drawn to either the language—which is vibrant even by Shakespearean standards—with its manifold layers of meaning and the staggering number of alternate readings it can support, or to the character of Hamlet himself, who often seems simply too big for the play he inhabits. The infinite interpretations, motivations, and traits readers and critics have ascribed to Hamlet is a testament to his universality as a character, and it is this universality, far more than any deconstructed revenge plot, that has captivated audiences for four hundred years.Itâ€™s also been speculated since the 18th century what role the death of Shakespeareâ€™s son, Hamnet, of unknown causes two to five years previously had on the development of the play. Shakespeare was primarily writing comedies at the time of Hamnetâ€™s death before suddenly switching gears to his darkest work. The names Hamlet and Hamnet were considered virtually interchangeable at the time, although some would argue that itâ€™s a coincidence because the name comes from the aforementioned Amleth. The original Danish folk tale also has a happy ending. So little is known about his family that itâ€™s impossible to know definitively but much academic work is still devoted to it.Even more than is usual for Shakespeare, Hamlet is filled with expressions that have become older than time itself; examples such as "Hoist by His Own Petard," "The lady doth protest too much," and "The play's the thing." Oh, and something about whether or not to be that was really difficult to translate into Klingon. And that's not to mention many subtler neologisms that have wormed their way into everyday English.Since Hamlet is almost always performed with cuts (as Shakespeare's longest play, performing the whole thing usually takes almost four hours), arguably every production is an adaptation, some even switching out scenes for pacing purposes (like the 2010 version did as explained here and here.) Sometimes the basic idea is what's adapted, more or less faithfully, and little or none of the original language is used. For a list of these adaptations, check the derivative works page.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_10416043	type	Dropping the Bombshell
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_10416043	comment	Dropping the Bombshell: Horatio tries to talk to Hamlet about the latter's deceased father. Hamlet assumes Horatio is talking about a time long past, but Horatio makes it clear that he didn't see his father before his death, he saw the ghost of Hamlet the Older the night before.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Claudius "comforted" Gertrude. It helped win him the throne. On the other hand, he does seem to genuinely love her, and lists his three motives for his murder of the old king as "My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_10f28611	type	Excessive Mourning
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_10f28611	comment	Claudius calls Hamlet's supposed Excessive Mourning "unmanly grief."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_11cac491	type	Tragedy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: One of William Shakespeare's four major tragedies.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Shakespeare is thought to have played the Ghost and the First Player.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: A non-sacrificial example appears in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, when the "four captains / bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1426dfe6	type	Surrogate Soliloquy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1426dfe6	comment	Surrogate Soliloquy: In Act V Scene 1, Hamlet discovers the (purported) skull of his childhood jester, Yorick, holds it eye-to eye socket, and starts talking to the skull about mortality.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Before the play properly starts, three clowns come out and act out almost the entire plot. Many modern productions omit this part, since you're not supposed to spoil The Mousetrap.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Considered one of Shakespeare's darkest plays.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1590c545	type	Local Reference
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1590c545	comment	Local Reference: The Gravedigger says that Hamlet has been sent to England to cure his madness, and if it doesn't work nobody will notice since everyone in England is mad anyways.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1872821f	type	Related Differently in the Adaptation
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1872821f	comment	Related Differently in the Adaptation: Some adaptations suggest that Claudius is Hamlet's true biological father rather than being his uncle, which is certainly a possibility depending upon whether Claudius and Gertrude were having an affair and if so, how long it was going on. In the original play Claudius does refer to Hamlet as his "son"; he's likely referring to the fact Hamlet is his stepson via his marriage to Gertrude, though some adaptations take this literally to add yet more angst and drama to the story.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Poison is best administered through the ear. Who knew?
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_18cb78a2	type	You Are Already Dead
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_18cb78a2	comment	You Are Already Dead: Laertes reveals to Hamlet that the wounds they have both sustained will be fatal because the blade was poisoned.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1972ef89	type	Railing Kill
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1972ef89	comment	Railing Kill: Part of Laertes's death in Branagh's version.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Hamlet and Laertes reconcile after each mortally wounds the other with the poisoned foil.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1a3b588c	type	Suicide Is Shameful
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1a3b588c	comment	Laertes' open grief - demanding that Ophelia gets the funeral rites she deserves, insisting that she would be an angel even though she committed a sin in the eyes of the Church, leaping into the grave to embrace her one last time - is considered this by Hamlet. He then reacted by trying to (mockingly) outdo Laertes with his own protestations of sorrow. Cue a fight.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1b73fada	type	The Dandy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1b73fada	comment	This is also Osric's normal mode of speech—which Hamlet mocks endlessly.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1d52b714	type	Self-Parody
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1d52b714	comment	Self-Parody: The Mousetrap and Dumb Show each walk through a slightly altered version of the play's premise.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1dd12556	type	We All Die Someday
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1dd12556	comment	We All Die Someday: Hamlet returns from England obsessed with this fact, as evidenced by the graveyard scene and his conversation with Horatio before the fatal duel with Laertes.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1ef8bd9a	type	Compromising Call
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1ef8bd9a	comment	Compromising Call: In Pop Up Globe's 2019 production, the answer to the question "Does Hamlet figure out Polonius is spying on his conversation with Ophelia, and if so when?" is given the answer, "Yes, and it's just after he hears Polonius's mobile phone ringing behind the arras."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: Hamlet tries to talk himself into it in nearly every one of his soliloquies, flip-flopping between ambivalent inaction and "my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1fffdf05	type	Advantage Ball
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_1fffdf05	comment	Advantage Ball: Hamlet may (or may not) have Minored in Ass-Kicking, but he should still not be able to hold the advantage in his duel with Master Swordsman Laertes except that the plot demands it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_203bb427	type	Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_203bb427	comment	Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: The way Claudius and Gertrude work together. When the power couple wants one of their subjects to do X, Claudius generally leads off with a stern half-command, all too aware that it's being issued by a king, while Gertrude tries a softer, more empathetic approach. Especially evident when the two convince Hamlet not to return to school (he responds to Gertrude) and when they convince Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet (they respond to Claudius).
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: When Horatio first confronts the ghost, he asks it if 1) some good deed may be done to quiet it, 2) it comes to warn the country against some fate, or 3) it comes to tell where it buried the treasure in its life—which were all common tropes and would be perfectly plausible if this were something other than a revenge tragedy. Polonius, meanwhile, seems to think he's in some sort of Star-Crossed Lovers romance.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_20dc0291	type	Curtain Camouflage
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_20dc0291	comment	Curtain Camouflage: Poor Polonius should have picked a better place to hide.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: The Ambroise Thomas opera makes both Gertrude and Polonius explicitly complicit in the murder of Hamlet Sr.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_21af9165	type	Heroic Vow
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_21af9165	comment	Heroic Vow: Hamlet (completely unprompted) swears a solemn oath to remember the ghost and his final words, "adieu, adieu, remember me." Unfortunately, he doesn't vow to do anything else the ghost commanded, like leave Gertrude out of it, preserve his own mind, or actually carry out his revenge on Claudius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Hamlet's castle, Elsinore, is a microcosmic version. Hamlet views Denmark—and, by extension, the whole world—as one.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Claudius is only named in the stage directions; the other characters all refer to him via sobriquets such as "the King" or "my uncle".
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Hamlet has many darkly humorous lines, especially when he's faking insanity. "He will stay till ye come." (To those searching for Polonius' body) Hamlet quips that Polonius is at a feast, "not where he eats, but where he is eaten" (by worms). The Gravedigger amuses his assistant—and confounds Hamlet—by joking about gallows and tombstones while digging Ophelia's grave. A meta one: The stage direction: Exeunt severally, Hamlet dragging in Polonius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Pop Up Globe's 2019 production has several anachronistic touches for comic relief, including a running gag of Polonius having a smartphone that keeps ringing at inopportune moments. This turns out to be setting up the moment when Polonius gets a Compromising Call while spying on Hamlet's conversation with Ophelia.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: The only major named characters who survive are Horatio and Fortinbras (who is often left out). A messenger even arrives at the very end to assure you that, yes, even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Just in case the poisoned foil doesn't off Hamlet, Claudius prepares some poisoned wine for him. He attempts to ward off suspicion by drinking from the cup himself and then dropping the poison in, calling it a "pearl" for Hamlet in celebration of his triumph. Hamlet doesn't seem fooled ("I'll play this bout first: set it by awhile"), but then Gertrude pulls an accidental Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo and drinks from the goblet herself. Later, Hamlet forces Claudius to drink from the poisoned chalice, and Horatio attempts suicide with it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Gregory Doran's 2008 production made this with Osric, having him present in all the court scenes, giving magnificent "Bitch, please!" Eye Take over what is happening around him, elevating him from a One-Scene Wonder to a Ensemble Dark Horse.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_24008c2c	type	Sword over Head
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_24008c2c	comment	Sword over Head: Happens in-universe in the First Player's speech recounting Pyrrhus's slaughter of Priam: This is almost always how the prayer scene is staged: Hamlet finds Claudius praying, raises his sword to finish his revenge, and pauses. The trope is important to the play as a whole, since it serves as a visual metaphor for Hamlet's reluctance to kill Claudius. Some productions, like the 2008 RSC version, have Hamlet adopt the pose (minus sword) at various other moments of heightened emotion mid-soliloquy.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_24321e44	comment	Hamlet, the only one grieving normally for his father's death, is treated as though his mourning is excessive.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: In-universe, in the Klingon version.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_266a9dd6	type	Heel–Faith Turn
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_266a9dd6	comment	Heelâ€“Faith Turn: Subverted. Claudius expresses consuming guilt over the murder of his brother and stoops to pray, crying, "Help, angels!" but after rising reveals he does not feel true remorse and is therefore unable to ask forgiveness.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: After seeing King Hamlet's ghost, Horatio remarks that similarly strange things happened in the days leading up to Julius Caesar's assassination. Later, Polonius tells Hamlet that he once played Julius Caesar at university.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: In Branagh's version, Polonius has just had sex with a prostitute before giving instructions to the spy he is sending to England to check that his son is behaving virtuously and chastely.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor The late King Hamlet is considered a ruler among rulers (by his son, at least). King Claudius assassinated him to get the job and spends his reign trying to keep people from becoming suspicious and making questionable foreign policy decisions. Possibly inverted at the end. Hamlet prophesies the Danish crown will be passed to Fortinbras of Norway, who has successfully overthrown the Danish army and invaded Elsinore. Although Fortinbras is essentially an unknown quantity, Hamlet's endorsement of him ("He has my dying voice") and Fortinbras's respectful treatment of the Danish dead imply that he will be a better ruler than his predecessor.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2c136406	type	Standard Royal Court
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court: Elsinore, the Danish castle where the play takes place.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: At first read, the play seems like a total Stylistic Suck—a spoileriffic dumb show followed by a series of tedious heroic couplets. But when we recall that Hamlet wrote some if not most of what we see here, the play (and particularly the Player King's dense but philosophically rich filibuster) serve as a rare window into Hamlet's true beliefs and moral code.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2f4916be	type	Paralysis by Analysis
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2f4916be	comment	Paralysis by Analysis: This trope is at the core of the play—Hamlet's Fatal Flaw, some say. He's so caught up analyzing the implications of his revenge—paralyzed by the sheer expansiveness of his own consciousness—that he can't bring himself to actually carry it out.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2f913008	type	Insanity Defense
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_2f913008	comment	Insanity Defense: Played for all the creep-factor it's worth.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Subverted. Hamlet seems to think that he and Claudius are "mighty opposites," but in reality, no one in the playnote except, perhaps, the Gravedigger is anywhere near the intellectual equal Hamlet needs.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: After Hamlet mistakenly kills Polonius, he hides the body surprisingly well. Claudius has a hell of a time getting him to tell where it is. Hamlet tells him that Polonius' body will start to smell as Claudius goes upstairs to the lobby.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Hamlet kisses Ophelia rather suddenly and passionately after performing a play reenacting his parents murdering his father.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him shortly after midnight. It had previously appeared to other people at about that time as well.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: While not exactly common, there is a recurring trend of recasting characters as the opposite sex in modern productions: Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress of her time, played Hamlet in an 1899 production (and was the first to portray him on film in Le Duel de Hamlet.) The 2000 film version, starring Ethan Hawke, not only changes the character of Marcellus to a girl, but also gives her a romantic relationship with Horatio. At the end of the play, the two of them are shown sharing an apartment and sleeping in the same bed. Alexander Fodor's 2007 arthouse film adaptation featured a female Horatio and "Polonia". The 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production converts minor character Cornelius to Cornelia.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_348e5217	type	Lap Pillow
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_348e5217	comment	Lap Pillow: Hamlet with Ophelia when they're watching the play. It gives him the opportunity to use a string of Double Entendres.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In the 1990 and 1996 film adaptations, Laertes explicitly breaks the rules of the dueling conduct to wound and poison Hamlet. Productions vary on how much effort Claudius puts into preventing Gertrude from drinking from the cup of wine he poisoned for Hamlet; in some, he only tells her to not drink from it (which she does anyway) but makes no move to stop her — despite earlier claiming that he really does love her. This differs by production. Derek Jacobi in Branagh's film version is visibly shaken at not being able to stop her from drinking.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake Hamlet stabs Polonius through a curtain, mistaking him for Claudius. The poisoned wine and poisoned sword Claudius prepares for Hamlet end up killing Gertude and Laertes, respectively.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: But he's not special.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3a153596	type	Dead Guy Puppet
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3a153596	comment	Dead Guy Puppet: It's not quite explicit in the text, but the graveyard scene can be very naturally played this way.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Pretty much every single one of Hamlet's lines can be read more than one way, holding awareness of all the connotations of the words he chooses.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3b55513e	type	Parental Betrayal
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3b55513e	comment	Parental Betrayal: Hamlet sees Gertrude's "o'erhasty marriage" as this.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Apparently Yorick poured a bottle of Rhenish (German wine) on the head of the gravedigger once.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3c2659de	type	Belated Love Epiphany
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3c2659de	comment	Belated Love Epiphany: Hamlet never realized he truly loved Ophelia until she drowned.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: The "hebona" with which Claudius poisoned King Hamlet, the poison-pearl Claudius drops in Hamlet's wine, and the poison with which Laertes anoints his sword.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: In the 1990 film version, Mel Gibson interprets the following line in this way to turn the tables on Polonius (Ian Holm):
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the Thomas opera, Hamlet does not kill Polonius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Occurs offscreen between acts IV and V. Hamlet is conveniently kidnapped by pirates on his way to England, who kindly return him to Denmark just in time for the play's climax. However, several of Hamlet's lines seem to imply that he arranged the "pirate attack" himself.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: One of the most famous examples in the Western canon occurs during Ophelia's mad scene, when she distributes real or imaginary flowers to the assembled cast. Interpretations of each flower's significance vary between scholars, but some include: Rosemary = memory Pansy = thought Fennel = flattery Columbine = male adultery Rue = regret, female adultery. Notably, rue is also a powerful poison and abortifacient, which might be the way Ophelia wears it "with a difference." Daisy = innocence Violet = faithfulness
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Thomas opera ends on a higher note than the play (not that that's saying much), with Hamlet surviving to be crowned king. However, he's still crossed the Despair Event Horizon ("My spirit is in the grave, alas!"), and Ofelia is still dead.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_413b0ed5	type	PromotionToLoveInterest
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_413b0ed5	comment	The 2000 film version, starring Ethan Hawke, not only changes the character of Marcellus to a girl, but also gives her a romantic relationship with Horatio. At the end of the play, the two of them are shown sharing an apartment and sleeping in the same bed.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: After blowing his first chance to kill Claudius, Hamlet strikes out blindly at a shape in the curtains he thinks is Claudius. It instead turns out to be Polonius, whose death sends everything straight to hell.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4412f4d	type	Guess Who I'm Marrying?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4412f4d	comment	Guess Who I'm Marrying?: The actual reveal happens before the play starts, so the story is about the fallout from this trope.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: There has been much debate over the extent to which Hamlet is only faking madness versus truly going mad.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: When Hamlet returns from England, he runs into a gravedigger on the castle grounds who apparently does not recognize him, and they have a conversation in which Hamlet asks questions about himself, pretending unfamiliarity with the case of the mad prince of Denmark (though it seems to be more for fun than to try to gauge the common people's opinion of him). Whether the Gravedigger actually doesn't recognize him is open to interpretation, though it stretches WSD somewhat that the man who has been sexton at Elsinore Hamlet's entire life (and who remembers the length of his employment specifically by that fact) would fail to recognize the prince, who usually sports only a Paper-Thin Disguise at best.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Pretty much played straight. King Hamlet, purportedly a king-among-kings, seems to have earned his reputation by prowess in battle. And Hamlet's speech in Act IV is prompted by his brush with Fortinbras, whom Hamlet exalts for his willingness to go to war over a triviality for the glory of it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4517f2a2	type	Symbolic Serene Submersion
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4517f2a2	comment	Symbolic Serene Submersion: Gertrude describes Ophelia's death-by-drowning this way, and many, many art pieces exist demonstrating her helplessness and eventual surrender to the water.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_454d9422	type	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_454d9422	comment	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Downplayed, as four of the show's eight deaths occur before this, but the final scene sees Hamlet, Laertes, Gertrude, and Claudius dead with almost farcical suddenness.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Claudius and Polonius try to engineer this, planting Ophelia in Hamlet's path and hiding nearby to listen in on the conversation and try to gain insight into the cause of his madness. It doesn't work.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister Claudius's cover-up for the murder of King Hamlet is that he was stung by a snake in the garden. Hamlet later compares his treacherous schoolfellows Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to "adders fanged."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: The Branagh version goes above and beyond the call of duty by adding Osric and all of the named palace guards to the fatalities in the final scene. Ingmar Bergman's stage version has Fortinbras interrupt Horatio's lines to have his guards take Horatio offstage and shoot him.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Hamlet is obsessed with words and the craft of writing, and he has a lot of opinions about the right and wrong ways to act.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In Act III, Hamlet says "my father died within these two hours," seemingly to draw attention to how short a time it has actually been. But how long has the play been going on at this point? Hamlet's conversations with the Players offer plenty of opportunities to comment on the theatre and stagecraft without explicitly acknowledging that they are characters on a stage. As Hamlet lies dying, he ostensibly addresses the courtiers:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4b0ef67b	type	Poisoned Drink Drop
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4b0ef67b	comment	Poisoned Drink Drop: In the 1990 film Gertrude drops the cup of poisoned wine after the poison hits her.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Ophelia is gentle, perceptive, and compassionate. Her sometime sweetheart apparently goes mad, hurls abuse at her when they meet, and kills her father. Her mind breaks, and then she dies.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: Considerably downplayed from the source material, where the Ophelia equivalent was actually sent to have sex with Hamlet, but Polonius's intention to "loose my daughter to him" carries the same connotations.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Although Hamlet succeeds in avenging his father by killing the murderer Claudius, he can do so only at the cost of his own life and the lives of numerous innocents and people close to him: His first attempt to kill Claudius results in himself stabbing Polonius by mistake, which contributes to Ophelia's going insane and subsequent drowning. When Hamlet kills Claudius in the last act, he does so only shortly before his own death from a wound inflicted on him by Laertes with a sword poisoned by Claudius. Hamlet's mother the Queen dies from accidentally drinking poisoned wine Claudius intended for Hamlet, and Laertes is unwittingly killed by Hamlet when he hits him with his own poisoned sword.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Played with. Ophelia's death is framed as an accident, but it was pretty clearly suicide.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4fc92b68	type	Suddenly Always Knew That
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_4fc92b68	comment	Suddenly Always Knew That: Hamlet has "been in continual practise" at fencing since Laertes went to France. Even though not a word has been uttered about it until now and it directly contradicts Hamlet's earlier assertion that he has "forgone all customs of exercise." Kenneth Branagh's film version actually shows Hamlet practicing continually.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Hamlet is considerably shaken after discovering that even his "excellent good friends," Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, have become Claudius's spies.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Hamlet gets two before he finally kills Claudius. Before stabbing Claudius with a poisoned blade: Except that's not enough. So he forces him to drink the poisoned wine he (Claudius) prepared:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_51ef63d0	type	The Climax
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_51ef63d0	comment	The Climax: The swordfight between Laertes and Hamlet, which goes wildly off the rails.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5207e2b0	type	Stalling the Sip
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5207e2b0	comment	Stalling the Sip: Mid-duel, Hamlet is given the cup of wine poisoned by Claudius. He lifts it to his mouth, alllllmost drinks... It is up to interpretation whether he suspects or just gets extremely lucky. In the end, Gertrude drinks the wine instead, which could also be intentional.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_52388345	type	Elective Monarchy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_52388345	comment	Elective Monarchy: The Danish monarchy is apparently elective, as it also was in reality until the late 1600s (though in practice, the eldest son was pretty much always elected). This is the reason why Claudius is king instead of Hamlet himself. Hamlet describes his uncle as having "popp'd in between the election and my hopes", and later says that he foresees that "the election lights on Fortinbras" as he himself is dying (and the Danish royal line with him).
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_52e52099	type	Deathbed Confession
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_52e52099	comment	Deathbed Confession: Exaggerated.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Before Hamlet can (finally) kill King Claudius, he must win the duel with Laertes, Claudius's newly appointed Number Two.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Polonius attempts to get some information on Hamlet to report back to the king. Hamlet gives the most obvious and unhelpful answers he can.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5532c127	type	Blood Upgrade
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5532c127	comment	Blood Upgrade: Justified. Hamlet and Laertes were supposed to be dueling with blunted foils, so the First Blood Hamlet suffers wasn't supposed to be drawn at all. Hamlet goes into a rage, wresting the foil from Laertes and wounding him back with it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Most notably in the 1990 film adaptation where the titular Prince Hamlet is played by Mel Gibson, Queen Gertrude is played by Glenn Close, and Ophelia played by Helena Bonham Carter.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: The play has become famous for killing off all the major characters except Horatio. First Polonius, (mistaken for Claudius and stabbed through a curtain), then Ophelia (goes mad and drowns, likely in a suicide), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (beheaded by the English king at Hamlet's command), Gertrude (drinks poisoned wine meant for Hamlet), Laertes (killed by the poisoned blade meant for Hamlet), Claudius (finally), and Hamlet himself (nicked by the poisoned blade).
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Ophelia is upset by a dirty innuendo Hamlet has made, so he feigns ignorance and just upsets her more with his euphemistic response, "Do you think I meant country matters?"
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: Played with. Hamlet doesn't just relive his Cynicism Catalyst—he stages a play based on it. The Show Within a Show he has the Players perform to Catch the Conscience of the king is altered to directly imitate the murder of King Hamlet as told by the Ghost, which occurred prior to continuity and informed Hamlet's dark & troubled persona.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Our hero's iconic black costume.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: In the 1990 Mel Gibson version, Helena Bonham Carter (Ophelia) supplements her "Young men will do it" hurricane of Double Entendres by grabbing a guard's scabbard and stroking it in a very suggestive manner.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_590eb583	comment	Hamletâ€™s Domestic Abuse of Ophelia (and rather depressing views on women) is easily seen as this.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The clash of thought and action. A complex mind finds simple actions such as Revenge hard to appreciate whereas more pragmatic simple people can live with themselves by easy justifications.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5d09da4c	type	For Your Own Good
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5d09da4c	comment	For Your Own Good: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern agree to spy on Hamlet because they are genuinely concerned for his mental stability.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Act V culminates in a duel between Laertes and Hamlet orchestrated by Claudius in order to kill Hamlet with either a cup of poisoned wine or the unblunted, poisoned foil Laertes wields. The plan backfires when Queen Gertrude drinks the poison, Hamlet hits Laertes with the poison sword, Laertes exposes Claudius with his dying breath, and Hamlet kills Claudius, only for Hamlet to succumb to his poisonous injuries moments later.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5d3d67d9	type	Gender Scoff
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5d3d67d9	comment	Gender Scoff
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5e70919d	type	Catch the Conscience
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_5e70919d	comment	Catch the Conscience: Hamlet hopes the Mousetrap will catch Claudius's conscience, evoking visible guilt over his murder of the old king.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_617f0563	comment	Laertes, who by his own admission is justly killed with his own poisoned sword, and does a Heelâ€“Face Turn to make peace with Hamlet before he dies.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_623d69e0	type	The Power of Acting
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_623d69e0	comment	The Power of Acting: Hamlet is amazed by the First Player's rendition of "Aeneas' Tale to Dido." The piece itself is a blatant Stylistic Suck, but the Player manages to make it art with Tender Tears. This ends up plunging Hamlet into a depressive episode, shaming him for being unable to even act his grief for his father.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_62434fe2	comment	Relatedly, Hamlet's quest for vengeance is first initiated after he's visited by the ghost of his dead father. However, he still doesn't take his father's ghost at face value and doesn't begin his quest for vengeance until he has actual concrete evidence, since he thinks that it's all a trick of the Devil. Furthermore, being visited by his father's ghost traumatizes Hamlet and even sets up his Sanity Slippage throughout the rest of the play.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Repeatedly mocked in the narrative. Claudius calls Hamlet's supposed Excessive Mourning "unmanly grief." Laertes is ashamed of crying over his sister's death. Hamlet, however, admires characters who are able to shed Tender Tears, an expression of grief he cannot manage himself.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_62c365d5	type	Emotions vs. Stoicism
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_62c365d5	comment	Emotions vs. Stoicism: A recurring theme, from Hamlet's "But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue" to Fortinbras's calm remark that he has "some rights of memory" prompting him to seize the throne of Denmark.note The last king killed his father.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_63f492d1	type	Bluff the Eavesdropper
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_63f492d1	comment	Bluff the Eavesdropper: Hamlet seems to realize that Polonius and possibly Claudius are listening in on his conversation with Ophelia. The direction he takes the interaction in response is frankly weird (and horribly sexist).
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6439de78	comment	It is up to interpretation whether he suspects or just gets extremely lucky. In the end, Gertrude drinks the wine instead, which could also be intentional.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_64e39841	type	Self-Soothing Song
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_64e39841	comment	Self-Soothing Song: Ophelia sings a song about a young woman losing her virginity, then being rejected, as she hands out Double Entendre flowers to everyone.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Hamlet is initially unsure whether to take his father's ghost at its word, considering the possibility that it might actually be a demon attempting to lure him to damnation.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Laertes and Ophelia's mother is never mentioned; they seem to form a nice little Dysfunctional Family with Polonius alone.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_683bb900	type	Last Disrespects
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_683bb900	comment	Last Disrespects: Hamlet kills Polonius accidentally, thinking he's someone else. But this is the prince of Denmark, and we can count on him to speak a suitable eulogy, right? Right?
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Yeah yeah, they speak in verse, not prose, but these unnecessarily flowery descriptions exceed the Shakespearean norm by enough to merit this trope. Why say "this same time last night" when you could say: And why call it "the moon" when you could call it: This is also Osric's normal mode of speech—which Hamlet mocks endlessly.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Laertes is genuinely, and understandably, distraught after the death of his sister, but his protestations of grief at her funeral (including actually jumping into her grave) get rather melodramatic. Hamlet, of course, takes it as a personal slight and outdoes (mocks) him in spectacular fashion.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6b4b8880	type	Lady Luck
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6b4b8880	comment	Lady Luck: In the Play Within a Play, the players denounce "thou strumpet Fortune!" and ask "All you gods in general synod [to] take away her power / Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30	comment	How likely is it that the Players would have brought recorders with them, that they would be willing to let Hamlet borrow them at a moment's notice, that a servant would be passing by right when Hamlet needs to call for one to make his pointnote "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you fret me, yet you cannot play upon me." to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Who cares! It's symbolic, and it's COOL.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6d332aea	comment	It abounds in the final scene, when Claudius, Laertes, and the audience know that the wine and the foil are poisoned, Hamlet and the courtiers do not, and Gertrude may or may not.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Hamlet worries that the ghost of his father may have in fact been a demon impersonating his father, driving him to seek further evidence of Claudius's guilt. Given that the Ghost alludes to enduring fiery punishment for his sins, implores Hamlet to take revenge, and ultimately sets off the events that kill most of the cast, Hamlet's fears may not have been unfounded.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: Hamlet's revenge on Claudius ends up being this. Hell, he's dying anyway. Why not?
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: Queen Gertrude delivers one to her son Prince Hamlet during their argument in her bedchambers. And again at Ophelia's funeral when a quarrel breaks out.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Our hero is infamous for his exclusively black outfits, which he actually wears in mourning for his father.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6ffe0ae4	type	Wild Goose Chase
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_6ffe0ae4	comment	Wild Goose Chase: Polonius wastes quite a bit of Claudius and Gertrude's time trying to convince them that Hamlet is mad for Ophelia's love—which is quite possibly what Hamlet intended.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_715b42f7	type	Rigged Spectacle Fight
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_715b42f7	comment	Rigged Spectacle Fight: When Claudius needs to get rid of Hamlet, he convinces Laertes to duel with him and poisons Laertes's blade so that any wound will (eventually) kill Hamlet. Although Laertes himself wasn't aware of it, he was fighting on Claudius's behalf.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Polonius is prone to this. A famous example: From Act II, Scene 2:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Osric in Gregory Doran's 2008 production.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Hamlet uses this on Ophelia with unclear intentions. Hamlet later deploys it against Osric, when it's Played for Laughs.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: One explanation for why Hamlet enters into a fencing match with Laertes (a Master Swordsman who loathes him for killing his family) at the behest of Claudius (who has already tried to have him assassinated). There are alternative implications, however.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7332c94f	type	Suicide by Sea
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7332c94f	comment	Suicide by Sea: Ophelia purportedly drowns in a river after falling from a tree where she was hanging flower garlands, but it is strongly implied to have been suicide.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Ophelia, who innocently waits in the lobby to converse with Hamlet, while Claudius, Polonius, and Gertrude wait in hidden chambers to overhear the conversation and determine if Hamlet's madness is the result of unrequited love.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: The skull of Yoricknote which is not actually the skull of Yorick disinterred by the Gravedigger, which Hamlet has a little chat with. Most advertisements and amateur depictions feature the skull in some way.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The Ambroise Thomas opera spares Polonius, Gertrude, LaÃ«rte and Hamlet himself.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_74828b58	type	Strong Empire, Shriveled Emperor
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_74828b58	comment	Strong Empire, Shriveled Emperor: Denmark is a powerful war nation (able to command the king of England to do its bidding at times), largely due to the late King Hamlet's military prowess. The Usurper, however, seems wildly inadequate for the position he now holds and spends the entire play making terrible diplomatic decisions.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_754df088	comment	Reynaldo is an agent of Polonius's sent to spy on Laertes when the latter leaves for France. Whatever actual impact Reynaldo has on anything is never touched on, and he hasn't returned to Denmark by the end of the play. Rule of Symbolism lends a hand here. Polonius's conversation with Reynaldo, apart from providing some comic relief, reinforces the atmosphere of espionage and surveillance pervading Elsinore.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7621a56b	type	Poison Is Evil
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7621a56b	comment	Poison Is Evil: Poison is Big Bad Claudius's weapon of choice.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_762b9223	comment	Hamlet later deploys it against Osric, when it's Played for Laughs.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_78c4f17c	type	Battle-Halting Duel
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_78c4f17c	comment	Battle-Halting Duel: Played with. The duel Claudius arranges between Hamlet and Laertes is meant to resolve both Laertes's peasant uprising and Hamlet's revenge plot against him.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Hamlet's fencing match with Laertes is this, although Hamlet (probably) doesn't know it. Claudius needs Hamlet dead, so he arranges a swordfight between him and Laertes in which Laertes wields an unblunted, poisoned foil—which ends up getting used on Hamlet, Laertes, and Claudius himself. If you're still interested in the technical outcome of the duel, we can reasonably say Hamlet won either way, since he both gained more hits against Laertes in the friendly part and died last in the deadly part—though both parties likely disqualified themselves when they started attacking each other between bouts.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7bd88e4a	type	Slain in Their Sleep
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7bd88e4a	comment	Slain in Their Sleep: Hamlet's father was murdered during his afternoon nap.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7cfeef98	type	Narrative Filigree
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7cfeef98	comment	Narrative Filigree: It's a revenge tragedy in which a man instructs his servant at length on the proper way to spy on his son, a group of traveling players drops by and performs a play, the hero's college buddies show up to spy on him, the hero plays the recorder, many messengers are sent to and from Norway, the hero gets exiled to England, pirates attack on the way, many superfluous letters are read onscreen, a girl distributes flowers to the Danish court, an auxiliary character attempts to overthrow the king for his own revenge plot, two gravediggers discuss the definition and implications of suicide, the hero and his buddy spend 116 straight lines mocking an unnecessarily detailed courtier, and a conquering army arrives at the end to clean up the corpses.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: A concise version.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The reason Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Claudius sends them to England with Hamlet, bearing an order for the English king to have Hamlet decapitated—but Hamlet finds the letter and replaces it with one ordering his escorts' death instead. They do not return to Elsinore with Hamlet, but a messenger arrives from England in the final scene to announce that yes, they have been beheaded.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Hamlet finally brings himself to act, he mistakenly stabs and kills Polonius, setting off the Disaster Dominoes.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_80360df0	type	Dark Horse Victory
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_80360df0	comment	Dark Horse Victory: Fortinbras ends up as the King of Denmark despite being a relatively minor (but important) background character for most of the play.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Hamlet sets out to put the kingdom to rights, but due to his Tragic Mistake his quest goes off the rails and although he succeeds in the end it is only at a great cost that includes his own death and the deaths of nearly everyone he loves.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_84fde8d1	type	Big Entrance
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_84fde8d1	comment	Big Entrance: Hamlet manages one verbally, bursting out of the bushes at Ophelia's funeral.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse? Marcellus is the Danish watchman who takes first Horatio, then Hamlet himself to see the ghost. He witnesses Hamlet's first reactions to the ghost and is privy to much discussion of the apparition, including Hamlet's plan to fake insanity. He is neither seen nor mentioned again after Act I. Reynaldo is an agent of Polonius's sent to spy on Laertes when the latter leaves for France. Whatever actual impact Reynaldo has on anything is never touched on, and he hasn't returned to Denmark by the end of the play. Rule of Symbolism lends a hand here. Polonius's conversation with Reynaldo, apart from providing some comic relief, reinforces the atmosphere of espionage and surveillance pervading Elsinore.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_867f06de	type	Duck Season, Rabbit Season
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_867f06de	comment	Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Hamlet quibbles with Osric over warm and cool weather to encourage Osric to put on his hat:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_86e17259	type	Alas, Poor Yorick
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_86e17259	comment	Alas, Poor Yorick: Trope Namer. Hamlet encounters the alleged skull of Yorick, the court jester of his childhood, prompting the prince to reflect on his mortality.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Branagh may have intentionally directed his adaptation in this style in order to maintain the audience's interest in a four-hour-long movie.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: Hamlet is Pungeon Master Supreme, but almost every other character gets in on the action at some point.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Few if any of the primary characters are indisputably virtuous, but very little in the play indicates that Claudius is anything but evil.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: When asked about the fact that he knowingly sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths, Hamlet replies, "they are not near my conscience". (Granted, they would have gotten him executed if he hadn't turned the tables on them.)
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_896592a8	type	Privacy by Distraction
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_896592a8	comment	Privacy by Distraction: Hamlet sends Polonius and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern to "Bid the players make haste" so that he can talk with Horatio in private.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8a164766	type	Never Got to Say Goodbye
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8a164766	comment	Never Got to Say Goodbye: Hamlet at Ophelia's funeral, after spending most of the play tormenting her and implying she was a whore. It's only after Laertes jumps into his sister's grave that Hamlet declares his love for Ophelia, when she's dead and unable to hear him.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8acbc572	type	Fire and Brimstone Hell
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8acbc572	comment	Fire and Brimstone Hell: The Ghost of Hamlet's father reveals that as his punishment in the afterlife, he must spend the days in "sulf'rous and tormenting flames" (by night, he walks as a ghost). The Ghost's prison is not Hell, but Purgatory, as (he says) his punishment will last (only) until his earthly crimes "are burnt and purged away".
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Horatio is onstage before and after Hamlet and during most of the play's important scenes, and often reacts in-universe as the audience would.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the "revenge drama" type of play that was in vogue at the time. Hamlet's desire for revenge ultimately drags just about everyone else down with him.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: King Hamlet, whose murder by his brother prior to the beginning sets the story in motion. In this case, he does make it onscreen as a ghost.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Even more extreme in the Branagh version, where Hamlet stabs Claudius in the leg with a sword thrown from across a rather large chamber, crushes him with a Falling Chandelier of Doom and then force-feeds him poison.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8ce49f80	type	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_8ce49f80	comment	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Hamlet is a thoughtful, academic fellow who has friends both close and distant and a developing romance with a girl who has even stronger feelings for him. Unfortunately, his uncle turns out to have murdered his father and married his mother to usurp the throne that should be Hamlet's.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Several examples: Polonius, the scheming busy-body, gets himself accidentally murdered by Hamlet when trying to spy on him behind a curtain. Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern: two false friends to Hamlet who tell ham-fisted lies while spying on behalf of Claudius, and who then try to escort Hamlet away to England where he is to be executed. Hamlet switches his letter for those of Claudius and has his two "friends" beheaded instead. Laertes, who by his own admission is justly killed with his own poisoned sword, and does a Heelâ€“Face Turn to make peace with Hamlet before he dies. Claudius is finally dispatched by a dying Hamlet as just punishment for having murdered Hamlet's father, the rightful King.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism lends a hand here. Polonius's conversation with Reynaldo, apart from providing some comic relief, reinforces the atmosphere of espionage and surveillance pervading Elsinore.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_91e7082a	type	Remarried to the Mistress
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_91e7082a	comment	Remarried to the Mistress: Gertrude's marriage to Claudius is implied to have been this, since it's suggested the two were having an affair.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_92f674e5	comment	When Horatio first confronts the ghost, he asks it if 1) some good deed may be done to quiet it, 2) it comes to warn the country against some fate, or 3) it comes to tell where it buried the treasure in its life—which were all common tropes and would be perfectly plausible if this were something other than a revenge tragedy.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: When Laertes and his followers invade Elsinore.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_944eb8fb	type	All Deaths Final
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_944eb8fb	comment	All Deaths Final: Although it is shown early on to very much not be the case, this concept seems incorporated into Hamlet's worldview.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_95d67d24	type	Get Thee to a Nunnery
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_95d67d24	comment	Get Thee to a Nunnery: The play contains many double entendres that go over the heads of modern audiences; among the best known are the "nunnery" and the "fishmonger" (terms for a brothel and a pimp, respectively).
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Did Ophelia actually commit suicide by deliberately drowning herself, or was her death an accident? The grave diggers believe it was the former, and the priest conducting her burial service straight up says "her death was doubtful" and that she doesn't deserve even the sparse funeral rites she's getting. We get the description of what supposedly happened from Gertrude and she might have been lying to spare Laertes' feelings; on top of that, if someone did see Ophelia falling from the tree into the river, why didn't they try to save her? On the other hand we've already seen how distracted and removed from reality Ophelia was, so it's not impossible that she really did fall into the river by chance and didn't comprehend her danger, and if someone did see it happen they couldn't get to her in time.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_97838192	type	Heroic Lineage
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_97838192	comment	Heroic Lineage: King Hamlet was a warrior-hero and seems to assume his son will take up the mantle, if his request for revenge is any indication. Hamlet is mortified by his seeming inability to live up to the lineage.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: Of the "Ur-Hamlet", a version of the story written a decade and a half earlier (possibly by the young Shakespeare himself) that Elizabethan audiences would have been familiar with. No copies of this version survive.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9826b657	type	Multilayer FaÃ§ade
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9826b657	comment	Multilayer FaÃ§ade: Is Hamlet sane, faking insanity? Or is he insane faking sanity faking insanity?
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Relied upon in the first two scenes especially. Used by Marcellus and Horatio to convey the atmosphere of apprehension in Denmark and the history between the kings of Denmark and Norway, and by Claudius to relate the recent death of King Hamlet and his own marriage to Gertrude. Barnardo also begins to recount the story of the ghost's first appearance, which everyone onstage has purportedly heard before, but he is interrupted by the actual arrival of the ghost.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: In certain interpretations, Ophelia does have a lisp, and some of her lines actually reflect this (for example, "twice two months" is understood as "two-es...two months). This gives Hamlet's line (" ... you lisp, you nickname God's creatures ... ") a second, literal meaning. Besides, her version from the Stanislavski-Craig Moscow Art Theatre production lisped in her mad scenes. Speech-Impeded Love Interest: She becomes this therefore, given her relationship with Hamlet.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9a061e64	type	Dishonored Dead
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9a061e64	comment	Dishonored Dead Polonius is reportedly given very quick and shoddy funeral rites, what with the king and queen trying to brush their heir's new homicidal tendencies under the rug. Act V, Scene 1, contains much debate over whether Ophelia, who most likely drowned herself, deserves a full Christian burial (as Christianity considers killing oneself more sinful than killing someone else). The scene starts with two gravediggers arguing over it. During the actual burial, when her brother Laertes, disappointed with the sparseness of the proceedings, asks "What ceremony else?" the priest replies that she's only getting a cemetery plot, a virginity wreath, small pebbles and scatterings to be scattered on her grave, and the funeral bell will toll, but no chants for the dead are allowed because the king ordered it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9b7de69c	comment	Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern: two false friends to Hamlet who tell ham-fisted lies while spying on behalf of Claudius, and who then try to escort Hamlet away to England where he is to be executed. Hamlet switches his letter for those of Claudius and has his two "friends" beheaded instead.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9c00c209	type	Hurricane of Aphorisms
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9c00c209	comment	Hurricane of Aphorisms: Polonius's parting words to his son Laertes, the famous "to thine own self be true" speech.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9d49c512	type	Please Shoot the Messenger
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_9d49c512	comment	Please Shoot the Messenger: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern travel to England with Hamlet to deliver a letter by King Claudius which orders Hamlet's execution (of which the two are probably unaware). To their misfortune, Hamlet secretly finds the letter and replaces it with one ordering the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead. They deliver the letter, and are decapitated.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Whereas the poisoned blade kills Laertes fairly quickly, it allows Hamlet time to start a final speech, abort it, foil Horatio's suicide attempt, implore Horatio and the audience to tell his story, get interrupted by news of Fortinbras's arrival, endorse Fortinbras as the next king, and finish things off with some killer last words:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Hamlet has this reaction when he overhears Ophelia's funeral, and that Laertes curses the prince for driving his sister to madness. He declares that he loved her, something that comes much too late.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a201dad2	type	Passive-Aggressive Kombat
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a201dad2	comment	Passive-Aggressive Kombat: If a character says something to another that outwardly appears thoughtful, compassionate, and constructive, chances are that it's actually insulting, emasculating, and harmful when you read between the lines. Especially prevalent in Hamlet's lines to Polonius:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a2036225	type	The Gloves Come Off
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a2036225	comment	The Gloves Come Off: In the final duel. The rules of fencing are quickly abandoned once Hamlet realizes Laertes is wielding an unblunted foil.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a2bc0f45	type	Give My Regards in the Next World
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a2bc0f45	comment	Give My Regards in the Next World: In Act IV, Scene 3 when King Claudius is looking for Polonius' body:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Discussed in the graveyard scene. Hamlet asks what kind of cold-blooded man could sing while digging graves, to which Horatio calmly replies "Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness."
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a42f56b0	type	Royal "We"
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a42f56b0	comment	Royal "We" Claudius alternates between "I" and "we," depending on the mood and subject matter of his speech. Hamlet uses it sarcastically.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a63cfe4a	type	Meta Fiction
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a63cfe4a	comment	Meta Fiction: In many ways, Hamlet is the main character of a classical tragedy who realizes he's in a classical tragedy, and then proceeds to use a classical tragedy to push the plot forward. Or, in other words, Hamlet is a play that both showcases and discusses how people use art to express themselves and manipulate others into their way of thinking.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In the final scene, Fortinbras orders Hamlet be given a soldier's burial as a mark of honor. At Ophelia's funeral, the priest grudgingly permits flower petals to be scattered on her grave, a wreath of virginity, and bells to toll for her; Laertes is upset that funeral chants aren't allowed:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Hamlet usually dies with Horatio cradling him in his arms.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Thomas opera does not punish Gertrude or Polonius (other than by killing off the latter's innocent daughter) for their complicity in King Hamlet's murder.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The Klingon version, wherein Earth has owed tribute to Qo'noS.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a8bfbd9a	type	Redemption Failure
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a8bfbd9a	comment	Redemption Failure: Claudius seeks absolution for his sins but realizes that he cannot be truly remorseful while still benefiting from his heinous deeds. He attempts to pray for forgiveness but rises to reveal:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a8f3f520	type	Death Is Dramatic
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_a8f3f520	comment	Death Is Dramatic: Polonius's death? Eh, stabbed through a curtain, cries "O, I am slain!," not the most important character. Ophelia was pretty important, but overlooked; she gets a dramatic death offstage. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Pff. one sentence after all the drama's over. Gertrude, Laertes, and Claudius were main players, so they get some good melodrama. And then there's Hamlet.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: Hamlet spends most of the play berating Ophelia and slut-shaming her. He's horrified when he witnesses her funeral, and the last thing he said to her were a bunch of sexist remarks when she was praising him.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: Although much less gory than Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, the deaths start in Act III and don't stop.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony In Act V, Scene 2, we know that the grave and subsequent funeral are for Ophelia. Hamlet does not, until Laertes refers to his sister. It abounds in the final scene, when Claudius, Laertes, and the audience know that the wine and the foil are poisoned, Hamlet and the courtiers do not, and Gertrude may or may not.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: In-universe. Hamlet and Horatio come across a man digging a grave—and singing a jaunty love song.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: The "long distance love-scene" from Laurence Olivier's film version, where Hamlet and Ophelia hold each others' gaze from opposite ends of a corridor.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Claudius and Laertes decide on a secondary plan to put a poisoned pearl in the wine if the poisoned foil should fail. Later, when Hamlet and Laertes are dueling, Gertrude takes a sip of the poisoned wine which Hamlet refused, and she dies by the backup plan Claudius had intended for Hamlet, who both stabs Claudius with the poisoned foil and makes him drink some of the poisoned wine.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: It is a revenge tragedy, after all. Hamlet succeeds in his goal of ridding the kingdom of The Usurper and setting a better ruler on the throne,note though it's not who we expect but it costs the lives of eight people, including the entire Danish royal family and five relatively innocent collateral victims. Claudius sets a backup plot of poisoned wine for Hamlet, in case the poisoned foil should fail. This takes a tragic turn when Gertrude drinks the wine and dies, and she falls victim to a revenge plot intended for Hamlet.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_af44da04	type	Publicly Discussing the Secret
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_af44da04	comment	Publicly Discussing the Secret: Claudius may be discussing it with us, but he's still discussing it, and it's still stupid.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b0362613	type	One-Way Trip
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b0362613	comment	One-Way Trip: One interpretation of V.2. The audience cannot accept that Hamlet would fail to recognize the duel with Laertes (who hates him), arranged by Claudius (who wants him dead), as the obvious death trap it is. His resigned detachment from the situation seems to imply that he is prepared to die—as long as he takes Claudius down first.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b0ac233d	type	Heaven Above
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b0ac233d	comment	Heaven Above: The characters follow the tradition of their religion in regarding Heaven and God as being "above"—such as when Claudius laments that his "offense is rank, / It smells to Heaven" and later that there is "not rain enough in the sweet heavens" to wash the metaphorical blood off his hands.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Certain interpretations of Polonius show him as this towards Ophelia, manipulating her and keeping her emotionally stunted.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Hamlet fakes insanity as part of his plot to kill Claudius and avenge his father. Or hell, maybe he is actually insane. Or possibly he's faking insanity and has become so depressed that he became actually insane.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The long, seemingly out-of-left-field dialogue in II.2 in which Hamlet and Rosenstern discuss why the Players are traveling instead of performing in the city is an elaborate dig at a rival London theatre company and its custom of using young boy actors to draw crowds.note Doubly hilarious because the claims that they boys have put the "tragedians of the city" out of business would have been clearly refuted by the packed Globe Theatre hearing them.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Hey, Polonius. Maybe it's not a good idea to hide behind the curtains while spying on Hamlet and yell suspiciously the second things start to go downhill. stab* Never mind.*
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Hamlet's lecture to the players is generally regarded as Shakespeare's guide to acting.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b5b4e3dd	type	Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b5b4e3dd	comment	Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Sigh.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: Family relationships and loyalties are important themes of the play, and both family units shown (Gertrude/Hamlet/Claudius and Polonius/Laertes/Ophelia) are seriously screwed up in their own ways.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Polonius forbids his daughter to so much as spend time with Hamlet, but doesn't see much harm in spreading rumors that his son visits brothels. Ophelia doesn't buy into this, and tells her brother he'd be a hypocrite if he admonished her to be chaste and then went off and had sex himself.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Polonius's main character trait. He delivers the well-known line "brevity is the soul of wit"—in the middle of a lengthy diatribe—despite being the least brief and least original character in the play. He later complains that the Player King's speech is "too long.": In general, one can assume that any advice given by Polonius will be advice he does not follow himself.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: A meta reading of Hamlet's death wish. Is he referring to God's laws prohibiting suicide, or the everlasting writer having fixed the canon of his work against his protagonist killing himself?
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: Claudius's tendency towards regicide and Hamlet's ambiguous sanity could be a comment on this trope.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bafa1190	type	Unfinished Business
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bafa1190	comment	Unfinished Business: King Hamlet rises from the grave to command Hamlet to avenge his murder. He himself has been Barred from the Afterlife, or at least from Heaven, because of the sins he was not allowed time to seek absolution for before his death.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance/Taking You with Me: Hamlet learns he has been poisoned and has minutes to live. Only then does he finally kill Claudius—by first stabbing him with the poisoned blade, then forcing him to drink poisoned wine.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Hamlet's Last Request is for Horatio (and us) to do this for him. Horatio goes on into the final part of the play with the mission to Clear Their Name.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: It is left ambiguous what sort of relationship Hamlet and Ophelia have actually had. Her mad songs and some of Hamlet's lines to Polonius seem to suggest the two have had sex.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: There's incremental-to-no textual evidence for it, but some productions play this up between Hamlet and his mother Queen Gertrude, mostly because Laurence Olivier did it. The 1990 film adaptation depicts a lot of closeness and open-mouth kissing between mother and son, which walks the line between this and full-blown Parental Incest.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Claudius and Gertrude, ironically. They work well together, show genuine concern for each other's wellbeing, and apparently have a more-than-healthy sex life.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c13c9e38	type	Tomato Surprise
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c13c9e38	comment	Hamlet's Tomato Surprise age is sometimes attributed to this.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Hamlet has a group of traveling players perform a revised version of The Murder of Gonzago, hoping to elicit some visible sign of guilt from Claudius over his murder of Hamlet's father.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Hamlet's conversation with Horatio prior to the duel in Act V implies that he is ready to die, so the outcome will benefit him whether Claudius kills him or he kills Claudius. Technically speaking, Claudius' plan to kill Hamlet was this — either Hamlet gets stabbed by Laertes or he drinks the poisoned cup — and it happened, but Claudius never got to enjoy the benefits of this as Hamlet's able to kill him.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Hamlet is narrating the events of The Mousetrap. Ophelia tells him, "You are as good as a chorus, my lord," subtly implying he is only as good as a chorus—not good enough for a major role.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: When Gertrude starts to lecture her son.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c3bdfbb9	type	Let's You and Him Fight
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: Hamlet and Laertes both want to avenge their fathers on Claudius. Instead, Claudius plays them against each other, arranging a duel between them. It doesn't go quite as planned.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	The poisoned wine and poisoned sword Claudius prepares for Hamlet end up killing Gertude and Laertes, respectively.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal Hamlet discovers that he has stabbed the concealed Polonius, not Claudius. During the funeral, when Laertes refers to his sister.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: When the gravediggers are inquiring about the nature of Ophelia's death: Hamletâ€™s Domestic Abuse of Ophelia (and rather depressing views on women) is easily seen as this. In Act III Scene 2, after the play has ended:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c6255bd1	type	Infectious Insanity
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c6255bd1	comment	Infectious Insanity: A recurring theme. Madness is consistently referred to with the same terminology as disease, and Hamlet's (probably) fake insanity communicates itself to Ophelia in the form of very real madness. In Shakespeare's day, there was some doubt as to whether madness might actually be a communicable disease—likely why Gertrude is so reluctant to meet with Ophelia when she requests it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out Hamlet is constantly comparing himself and everyone around him to mythological figures. One of his first lines demonstrates his love for his late father and disgust for his uncle by comparing the difference between those two brothers to the difference between Hamlet himself and the super-strong demigod Hercules. When Claudius is left by himself, he laments that by killing his brother, he will share in the curse placed upon Cain, whom the Book of Genesis describes as humanity's first murderer. In Act 4, Ophelia says to Claudius that "[t]hey say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be," referring to The Baker's Daughter. Exactly what she means with it is a point of debate, but generally is taken as being about the certainty of what is contrasted by the unpredictability of what is to come.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c90edae8	type	Audience Monologue
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_c90edae8	comment	Audience Monologue: Claudius and Ophelia both indulge in a bit of soliloquy. Hamlet wallows in it.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Usually just known as Hamlet these days, though it's sometimes still published as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Hamlet's confused revenge plot claims the lives of eight major characters—four deaths accidental, four intentional.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: It's the Trope Namer, after all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern deliver their own death warrant, not realising that Hamlet altered the document before his escape by replacing his name with theirs. Hamlet remarks: Claudius and Laertes are killed by their own poison:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: After Hamlet kills Polonius. Horatio gives Hamlet a mild one when he hears of the trick that sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths, which Hamlet blithely dismisses.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d4871dd	type	Love Letter
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d4871dd	comment	Love Letter: Hamlet has written quite a few to Ophelia. Polonius reads one aloud to the King and Queen, and Ophelia later tries to return the lot to Hamlet, at which he denies ever writing them.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d5d34629	type	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: One of Hamlet's excuses for callously ordering the execution of Rosenstern, who betrayed their friendship with him to spy for Claudius. Either that or they were just Innocent Bystanders.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d5f31c75	type	Rabble Rouser
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d5f31c75	comment	Rabble Rouser: When Laertes learns of his father's death, he returns to Denmark and leads an angry mob against Claudius in a coup for the throne. The mob invades the castle, but Claudius succeeds in talking Laertes out of it. The mob is, presumably, left waiting outside the throne room forever.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Modern versions often feature non-white actors in traditionally white roles, since there's no particular reason any of the characters have to be a certain race, especially if it's a modernized production. In the 2008 David Tennant production, Horatio is portrayed by a black actor. Campbell Scott's 2000 film adaptation, which takes place on a Southern plantation, depicts Polonius, Laertes and Ophelia as a family of house slaves.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d8f6a563	type	Good Night, Sweet Prince
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d8f6a563	comment	Good Night, Sweet Prince: Horatio when Hamlet dies.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: The mistake that leads to Hamlet's downfall can be traced back to the prayer scene, where he doesn't kill Claudius when he has the chance. Hamlet has confirmed Claudius's guilt with the Mousetrap, and now he runs across his uncle at prayer, unaware and vulnerable. It would be the perfect moment to finish his revenge once and for all, but he doesn't, worrying that Claudius's soul, released while praying, will go straight to Heaven, unlike Hamlet's father, who has claimed to be enduring fiery punishment for the sins he was not given time to confess. But despite Hamlet's noble intentions, the play goes downhill for him from there on out. After Hamlet leaves, Claudius admits to himself that his attempt at prayer was insincere lip service, implying that he would have been condemned in the afterlife if Hamlet had struck him down.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Many, many, many. The most famous is Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. A more recent example is John Updike's novel Gertrude and Claudius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math Dawn comes, by Horatio's count, one hundred seconds after midnight. Hamlet's Tomato Surprise age is sometimes attributed to this.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Before Hamlet and Laertes wrestle over Ophelia's corpse.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Hamlet hires an acting troupe to perform a play about a king being murdered, with a few alterations to make it more like Claudius's murder of King Hamlet, hoping Claudius will react in a manner confirming the ghost's accusation. It works, with Claudius ending the show abruptly.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_dec8bfbf	type	Trash Talk
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_dec8bfbf	comment	Trash Talk: Hamlet to Laertes between bouts of their duel with disastrous results. Unbeknownst to Hamlet, Laertes has just begun to waver on following through with Claudius's murderous plan, but the jibe provokes him all over again and seals Hamlet's fate. May crisscross with Suicide by Cop if you interpret Hamlet as playing Act V to lose.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Subverted. Hamlet's return to Elsinore in Act V should play out like this—he's the rightful heir to the throne, returning to his kingdom to confront The Usurper who has just tried to have him assassinated, and the last thing we heard from him was "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!"—but this being a revenge tragedy, things quickly go Off the Rails.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: At the end of Act I, Hamlet meets the ghost of his father, who commands his son to avenge his death and kill King Claudius. The ghost returns in Act III to further encourage his son.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e22dae0a	type	Pretext for War
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e22dae0a	comment	Pretext for War: The "little patch of ground / That hath no profit in it but the name" that Hamlet sees Fortinbras leading his forces to defend. Whether the intended war is with Poland or Denmark is less clear.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Hamlet's revenge strategy, arguably. Aside from the Mousetrap scheme and his intention to fake insanity, he shares very little of his actual plan with the audience and often appears to be making things up on the fly.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e3c9fd6c	type	Midfight Weapon Exchange
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e3c9fd6c	comment	Midfight Weapon Exchange: Happens in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes, meaning they are both mortally wounded with the poisoned blade.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e41a9801	type	All Women Are Lustful
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: Subverted and even deconstructed, as Hamlet's ongoing depression causes him to make sexist categorisms of women that lead to this assumption. Because his mother was unfaithful, he assumes that all women (even his innocent admirer Ophelia) in his life are secretly lascivious whores with no moral compass.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e41cf31d	comment	Except that's not enough. So he forces him to drink the poisoned wine he (Claudius) prepared:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e539f64f	type	Kill Him Already!
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e539f64f	comment	Kill Him Already!: A main source of dramatic tension is Hamlet's reluctance to off his Evil Uncle, Claudius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e596f27b	comment	Polonius, meanwhile, seems to think he's in some sort of Star-Crossed Lovers romance.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e6321da2	type	Info Drop
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e6321da2	comment	Info Drop: By the way, Hamlet got taken prisoner by pirates. But now, on to more important matters.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Claudius brings Hamlet's college buddies, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to Elsinore to spy on Hamlet for him. Hamlet sees through it almost immediately and begins to Feed the Mole. Probably. He's not exactly being forthcoming with us, either, so for all we know he could be telling them the truth.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e8428d18	type	Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e8428d18	comment	Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: Hamlet agrees to a duel with Laertes using blunted foil swords. When he gets cut and realizes that Laertes is using a live blade, he manhandles his opponent and fatally wounds him with his own sword.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e8d46c29	type	Backstory
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e8d46c29	comment	Backstory: The event that catalyzes the plot—the murder of King Hamlet—takes place several months before the play picks up. Most of the backstory is exposited in the first two scenes.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eb584221	type	Why Are You Not My Son?
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eb584221	comment	Why Are You Not My Son?: In his first scene, Claudius publicly names Hamlet as his heir and implores him to "Think of us as of a father," but not until he has addressed Laertes's suit to return to France and made it quite clear who his favorite young nobleman really is.note He addresses Laertes by name five times in twelve lines here.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eb87de9f	type	Speech-Impeded Love Interest
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eb87de9f	comment	Speech-Impeded Love Interest: She becomes this therefore, given her relationship with Hamlet.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: The premise. Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, murdered his brother (Hamlet's father) for the throne. But surprise! The dead king is still very much around, and he commands Hamlet to get back at Claudius for him, violently. Allusions to the Biblical Cain and Abel are sprinkled throughout the play.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ece948d8	type	Tender Tears
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ece948d8	comment	Tender Tears: The First Player sheds them while performing a soliloquy about the downfall of Troy, embarrassing Hamlet because he can't express his own genuine grief for his father nearly as well as the Player expresses an imaginary grief for people he's never met.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_edad64f9	type	Garden of Eden
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_edad64f9	comment	Garden of Eden: In keeping with the consistent imagery of snakes and gardens, the Ghost compares the murder of Hamlet's father by Claudius (and, broadly, the corruption of the Danish court) to a ruined Eden.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eff85ff1	type	The Low Middle Ages
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_eff85ff1	comment	The Low Middle Ages: Technically set in this era.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f07250e2	type	That Cloud Looks Like...
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f07250e2	comment	That Cloud Looks Like...: In a surreal touch, this scene is often set indoors, far from any windows.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Ophelia and Laertes, brother and sister, admonish each other to remain chaste. They probably don't mean to get as graphic as they do. Ophelia's going to keep her lock to herself, not open up her chaste treasure to Hamlet's unmastered importunity, while Laertes will keep his key to himself.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the play, the famous "to be or not to be" speech happens before Hamlet confronts Ophelia. In the 1990 film it happens just after the "get thee to a nunnery" scene.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: After the duel, Laertes forgives Hamlet (who is responsible for the death of everyone in his family, now including him), and Hamlet forgives Laertes (who has just poisoned him), when they remember who the real Big Bad is.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f3f1a9e2	type	Not My Driver
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: In the Almereyda/Hawke film, the scene where Hamlet intends to kill his uncle Claudius is played this way — Hamlet replaces the chauffeur. Claudius gives his Ignored Epiphany soliloquy in the backseat of his limo.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Osric can very easily be argued to be this to Polonius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: There are overtones of this. Killing Claudius is Hamlet's chance to prove himself to his father, who is himself a very manly war machine, and the constant degrading of the feminine in the play only adds to the implications.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Attempted by Horatio when he tries to poison himself to follow Hamlet. Hamlet prevents Horatio from following through, imploring him to live and tell the story of Hamlet's death.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f68fcbc6	type	Sealed Orders
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f68fcbc6	comment	Sealed Orders: Claudius sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England as messengers. Unbeknownst to them, the envelope contains orders to execute their old friend Hamlet — Claudius makes sure to seal it and forbids them from opening it. They would only learn this information after they've delivered the letter.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: Polonius is convinced Hamlet is mad with love for Ophelia. The King and Queen (and Ophelia) are less sure.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Nearly all the play's more lighthearted comedy occurs before Act III, Scene 4, when Polonius, the closest thing the show has had to a comic-relief character, is brutally stabbed through a curtain and dragged across a castle once dead. The actual clowns, when they eventually bother to show up, are a pair of gravediggers. Oh, and a skull.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Laertes does not want Hamlet seeing Ophelia. As it turns out, he was right to worry.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: The main plot. Also the motive driving Laertes to kill Claudius, then to kill Hamlet after Claudius talks him down, and Fortinbras to seize the throne of Denmark.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Polonius' report to Claudius and Gertrude regarding Hamlet's apparent infatuation with Ophelia consists of this:
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fd6b88cb	type	Ruling Family Massacre
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fd6b88cb	comment	Ruling Family Massacre: Inverted. The Danish royal family wipes itself out, leaving the invading Fortinbras nothing to do but stroll in and take the throne—carefully stepping over the corpses, of course.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fd99256b	type	Dying Reconciliation
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_fd99256b	comment	Dying Reconciliation: After Laertes is wounded with his own poisoned sword, and Gertrude falls dead from drinking from a poisoned cup of wine, Laertes exposes Claudius's plot to Hamlet before he succumbs to the poison, giving Hamlet the drive to finally kill Claudius.
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Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: One of the play's more underrated merits is how it approaches human psychology compared to most other contemporary Elizabethan revenge dramas. Or, to be more concise, Hamlet's constant struggle with bringing himself to kill Claudius can be seen as a reflection of how, in the real world, most people have been taught to have a decent respect for human life and will really struggle to actually bury their knife in another person's back (especially if the person in question's both a blood relative and a major governmental figure). Relatedly, Hamlet's quest for vengeance is first initiated after he's visited by the ghost of his dead father. However, he still doesn't take his father's ghost at face value and doesn't begin his quest for vengeance until he has actual concrete evidence, since he thinks that it's all a trick of the Devil. Furthermore, being visited by his father's ghost traumatizes Hamlet and even sets up his Sanity Slippage throughout the rest of the play.
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Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Obfuscating Stupidity / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Offscreen Karma / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Oh, Crap! / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Old Windbag / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ominous Fog / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Omnidisciplinary Scientist / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	One-Liner, Name... One-Liner / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Opinion Flip-Flop / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Orphaned Reference / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Our Ghosts Are Different / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Outhumbling Each Other / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Parent with New Paramour / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Past Experience Nightmare / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	People Fall Off Chairs / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Perfect Poison / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Period Piece, Modern Language / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Person as Verb / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Personality Powers / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Please Shoot the Messenger / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Plot-Irrelevant Villain / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Poison Is Evil / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Posthumous Character / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Powerless at Christmas / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Premature Eulogy / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Pretentious Pronunciation / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Princeling Rivalry / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Psycho Psychologist / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Public Domain Character / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Pungeon Master / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Pyrrhic Victory / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Quaking with Fear / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Quip to Black / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Quote Mine / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rage Against the Author / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rasputinian Death / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Realism / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rebel Relaxation / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Red and Black and Evil All Over / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Red Oni, Blue Oni / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Related Differently in the Adaptation / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Remarried to the Mistress / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rhetorical Request Blunder / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rhymes on a Dime / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Riddle for the Ages / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ridiculous Procrastinator / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rigged Spectacle Fight / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rightful King Returns / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rival Turned Evil / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Role Called / int_35bceb50
Ron Halder	seeAlso	Hamlet (Theatre)
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Royal "We" / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ruling Family Massacre / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rushed Inverted Reading / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sarcastic Devotee / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Say Your Prayers / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	School Play / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First! / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Script Swap / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sealed Orders / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Second-Hand Storytelling / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Self-Insert Fic / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Self-Offense / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Self-Soothing Song / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Seven Dirty Words / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Shaped Like Itself / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Shipper on Deck / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Shoo Out the Clowns / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Shrinking Violet / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sibling Murder / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sibling Triangle / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Signature Scene / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Significant Anagram / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Simple Solution Won't Work / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sketchy Successor / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Slain in Their Sleep / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spared by the Adaptation / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Speech-Impeded Love Interest / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Speech Impediment / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spurned into Suicide / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Stab the Picture / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Stalling the Sip / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Stay with Me Until I Die / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Suddenly Always Knew That / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Suicide by Sea / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Suicide Is Shameful / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Super Weight / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sword Fight / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sword over Head / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Symbolic Serene Submersion / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Take Back Your Gift / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Take That, Audience! / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Taking the Veil / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Taking You with Me / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tame His Anger / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tender Tears / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Coup / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Exit Is That Way / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Film of the Play / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Glomp / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Good King / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Hero Dies / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Kingslayer / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Low Middle Ages / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The New Rock & Roll / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Obi-Wannabe / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Ophelia / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Power of Acting / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Power of Language / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Power of Love / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Presents Were Never from Santa / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Usurper / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Villain Must Be Punished / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Voice / int_35bceb50
TheatreIlluminataTrilogy	seeAlso	Hamlet (Theatre)
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Through the Eyes of Madness / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	To Make a Long Story Short / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Together in Death / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Live / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tough Love / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tragic Mistake / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Treacherous Spirit Chase / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tuneless Song of Madness / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unbuilt Trope / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unfinished Business / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unishment / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unrequited Tragic Maiden / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unstoppable Rage / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unusual User Interface / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Upper-Class Twit / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ur-Example / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Vague Age / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Villainous Breakdown / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Villainous Incest / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Violently Protective Girlfriend / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Virtuous Character Copy / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Voice of the Legion / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Vomiting Cop / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	We All Die Someday / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Weapon Stomp / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Wedding/Death Juxtaposition / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	What Does She See in Him? / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	What's a Henway? / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Where Is Your X Now? / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Wicked Stepmother / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Widow's Weeds / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Windbag Politician / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	With Friends Like These... / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Word of Dante / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Working-Class People Are Morons / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	World of Ham / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Xanatos Gambit / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	You Are Worth Hell / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	You Killed My Father / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Youthful Freckles / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Manga)	seeAlso	Hamlet (Theatre)
Hamlet / Theater	seeAlso	Hamlet (Theatre)
CompleatFemaleStageBeauty	seeAlso	Hamlet (Theatre)
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Lap Pillow / int_35bceb50
Hamlet (Theatre)	hasFeature	Surrogate Soliloquy / int_35bceb50
hamlet	sameAs	Hamlet (Theatre)

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