What does King Claudius say he is mourning over?
Claudius (/ ˈ k l ɔː d i ə s / KLAW-dee-əs; Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was Roman emperor from AD 41 to 54. Born to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul where his father was stationed as a military legate he was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy.Nonetheless Claudius …
King Claudius is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to Prince Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his brother with poison and then marrying the late king's widow. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain Feng who appears in Chronicon Lethrense and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. There has never been an actual Danish King of that name.
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Hamlet jokes with Claudius about where he has hidden Polonius's body and the king fearing for his life sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to accompany Hamlet to England with a sealed letter to the English king requesting that Hamlet be executed immediately. Unhinged by grief …
He tells the young Hamlet that he was poisoned and murdered by his brother Claudius the new King of Denmark and asks the prince to avenge his death. He also expresses disgust at his wife Gertrude for marrying Claudius but warns Hamlet not to confront her but to leave that to Heaven.
Claudius agrees to try the eavesdropping plan later. The plan leads to what is commonly called the "Nunnery Scene" from its use of the term nunnery which would generally refer to a convent but at the time was also popular slang for a brothel. Polonius instructs Ophelia to stand in the lobby of the castle while he and ...
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