Voltemand | Courtier at the Danish court. He gets word about Fortinbras |
Rosencrantz | Courtier at the Danish court, and ex-friend of Hamlet |
Norway | Homeland of Prince Fortinbras |
Queen Gertrude | The widow of King Hamlet. She is now married to Claudius |
Polonius | The father of Ophelia and Laertes, an councilor to King Claudius |
Cornelius | Courtier at the Danish court (corny) |
Hamlet | Prince of Denmark and son of the late King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude |
Horatio | Hamlet’s friend and confidant |
Hyperion | Mythical character Hamlet compares his father to (the sun god) |
Guildenstern | Courtier at the Danish court, and ex-friend of Hamlet that can’t play the recorder as well as he can lie |
Francisco, Bernardo, and Marcellus | Danish Soldiers |
King Hamlet | Murdered by Claudius |
Fortinabras | Prince of Norway |
France | Laertes’ homeland |
Orisic | Courtier at the Danish court, and refs the “game” between Laertes and Hamlet |
Hebona | Name of poison used to kill the late Hamlet |
Wittenburg | Hamlet and Horatio’s school |
Frailty | Characteristic Hamlet compares all women to |
niobe | Mythical character Hamlet compares his mother to. she wept endlessly for the death of her children |
Denmark | Homeland of Hamlet and where the setting takes place in the play |
Two Clowns | Gravediggers |
Players | Actors who perform “The Murder of Gonzago” which Hamlet calls “The Mousetrap” to Claudius |
Reynaldo | Servant to Polonius |
The ghost | Hamlet’s dead father |
Francisco | Guard who leaves during Act 1 Scene 1 |
Laertes | the brother of Ophelia, and son of Polonius |
Ophelia | Hamlet’s girlfriend. She is sister of Laertes, and the daughter of Polonius |
King Claudius | Brother to the late King Hamlet |
Hamlet test
August 3, 2019