Act 1
Scene 1- Barnado and Francisco change guard watch at the opening scene. They talk about Horatio who, is said to look like the recently dead king, appearing in the hours before dawn.
Scene 2-
The king speaks to the people, about his recent marriage, to the wife of the dead king, who is also his brother.
Horatio tells hamlet of the appearance of his father’s ghost, and hamlet says he will go see the ghost.
Scene 3- Ophelia is talking to laertes about her affection for Hamlet, the kings son. Laertes warns his sister, Ophelia, about hamlet, as he does not trust his actions. Polonious, the father of the two, enters the room, and follows Laertes on the point that she should not trust Hamlet.
Scene 4- hamlet is on watch with horatio and marcelus. They are waiting for the ghost. The king, who is hamlets step dad, and uncles fires cannons, walking around the castle drunken.
The ghost arrives, and beckons for hamlet alone.
Scene 5- hamlet talks to the ghost of his father, and talks about how he was killed by his brother, hamlets uncle, who married the queen to become king, by poison in the ear whilst he was sleeping.
The ghost requests hamlet to kill his step father, the king, in order to take revenge of what he did.
The other people askwhat happens, and hamlet doesn’t say.
