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Concerned about Hamlet’s erratic behavior and his apparent inability to recover from his father’s death, the king gets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to agree to investigate.
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| Ah Rosencrantz, I would like you and Guildenstern to see if you can find out why Hamlet is acting so strangely. | |
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Polonius enters, announcing the return of the ambassadors whom Claudius sent to Norway. He then turns to the subject of Hamlet, and after a wordy preamble, that the prince is mad with love for Ophelia
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| Sir, good news from Norway, but about Hamlet, I have reason that he is mad with love! *Reads letter* | |
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Polonius attempts to converse with Hamlet, who appears insane; he calls the old man a “fishmonger†and answers his questions irrationally.
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| How does my good Lord Hamlet? Do you know me, my Lord? | |
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| Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. | |
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