Scene 1 – The king asks the queen where hamlet was, and she tells the king that hamlet killed Polonius. Gertrude calls Hamlet crazy, and the kind decides to punish him, by sending him to England.
Scene 2 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find out where hamlet put the body, after being asked by the king.. Hamlet reveals in the castle, but not where, as he cannot trust them, as he knows they are spying on him. Hamlet wants to see the kind, but refuses that he is the kind, with the quote “the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body, the king is a thing of nothing”.
Scene 3 – The king cannot sanction hamlet, as he is too popular with the people. The guards bring in hamlet to the king, and he demands to know where the body is. Hamlet reveals the smell from the lobby, suggesting that is where the rotting corpse is. The king reveals he wants hamlet dead in England
Scene 4 – Hamlet is with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He sees Fortinbras leading the troops to Poland, and he asks what they are doing, and finds that Norway want to start a fight, over a part of Poland.
Scene 5 – Someone reports that Ophelia has gone crazy. Gertrude refuses to see Ophelia, but does so. Ophelia enters, singing frames of a sad song, about chaos and death. The king and queen try to speak with her, but she doesn’t respond logically. The king asks Horatio to follow Ophelia. Laertes comes in, angry, requesting for his father to be given back, and the king promises, he will get vengeance for Hamlet killing Polonius.
Scene 6 – Horatio gets a letter from a sailor, sent from hamlet. The letter tells Horatio that there were pirates on the ship which he was on to England. the pirates took hamlet captive, and brought him back to Denmark.
Scene 7 – Claudius gets the letter, knowing that hamlet is still alive. Claudius says he will allow Laertes to kill hamlet, to avenge him killing Polonius, in a sword fight.
Hamlet will have a fencing sword, but Laertes will have a sharp sword, with poison on it. Claudius also puts poison in the wine, so if Laertes cannot hit him, then he will die from the poison in the wine.
