Hamlet

Hamlet is present at a reception being given by his uncle Claudius, who has just married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. Hamlet reflects on the hasty marriage, and learns of the ghost’s visit. That night he meets the ghost, who reveals that King Hamlet was murdered by Claudius, and Hamlet willingly agrees to be the means of revenge. Hamlet kills Claudius, and in the course of it, Ophelia, Polonius, Gertrude and many of others around him face tragic deaths. Hamlet, close to death, instructs Horatio to tell his story.