What was the King’s reaction to the play, and what did Hamlet and Horatio decide his reaction meant? Claudius stops the play. Hamlet and Horatio decide that this means the King is guilty of poisoning King Hamlet like the ghost said.

What decision does the king make after observing Hamlet with Ophelia? After observing Hamlet and Ophelia, the King decides that he wants to get rid of Hamlet and send him to England but still spy on him.

Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris to spy on Laertes (find out his true behavior) and to take him money and messages. Polonius thinks that Hamlet is mad because he’s crazy with love for Ophelia and she is ignoring him so he is depressed. You just studied 74 terms!

What does Polonius decide to do after Ophelia tells him about Hamlet? Polonius decided to go to the king and tell him what happened with Ophelia and Hamlet.

“To be, or not to be” is the opening phrase of a soliloquy given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called “nunnery scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse.

In Act 4 Scene 7, Queen Gertrude reports that Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree (There is a willow grows aslant the brook), and that the branch had broken and dropped Ophelia into the brook, where she drowned.

Edmund or Edmond is a fictional character and the main antagonist in William Shakespeare’s King Lear. He is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, and the younger brother of Edgar, the Earl’s legitimate son….Edmund (King Lear)

Lear gives his older daughters Goneril and Regan half his kingdom each to rule with their husbands and surprises everyone by disinheriting and disowning his youngest daughter Cordelia. The Earl of Kent is banished from the kingdom for publicly questioning Lear.

Lear curses Goneril He curses her never to have a child or if she does, that it make her life a misery so that she understands how it feels to have an ungrateful child.

Enraged by his daughters’ refusal to allow him to keep 100 knights to attend him, Lear and his Fool depart into the stormy night alone. Lear, Kent and the Fool meet Edgar, disguised as Poor Tom, on the heath and are persuaded to take secret refuge in Gloucester’s home.

Edgar is the Earl of Gloucester’s legitimate son and heir, and Lear’s godson. He is an honest man, incapable of seeing that others might not be, and is fond of his younger half-brother Edmund, whose advice he takes. He does not habitually carry weapons on him.

role in “King Lear” …and spurns his honest son, Edgar. Driven into exile disguised as a mad beggar, Edgar becomes a companion of the truly mad Lear and the Fool during a terrible storm. …mistake with his good-hearted son, Edgar, and thereby delivers himself into the hands of his scheming illegitimate son, Edmund.

The Earl of Gloucester is a rich, powerful and loyal subject of King Lear. He has two sons: his eldest son Edgar is legitimate – the son of Gloucester’s wife; the younger son Edmund is illegitimate – the son of a woman with whom Gloucester committed adultery.

Edgar may well be playing a part, but it is a part that allows him to speak his true pain. As Edgar, he tells only the audience that he has ‘Escap’d the hunt’ (2.3. 3) set on him by his father; as Poor Tom, he can roar to the king: ‘the foul fiend follows me! ‘ (3.4.