Videos. During Reading. Before Reading. 18_hamlet. Poster. Hamlet Plot Summary: Overview of Hamlet. Here is a short plot summary of Hamlet: Prince Hamlet’s student friend, Horatio, goes to the battlements of Denmark’s Elsinore castle late at night to meet the guards.
They tell him about a ghost they have seen that resembles the late king, Hamlet. It reappears and they decide to tell the prince. Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, having become king, has now married Hamlet’s widowed mother, Gertrude. In the court, after envoys are sent to Norway, the prince is dissuaded from returning to university. In Search of Shakespeare . The "Punny" Language of Shakespeare. Introduction One of the most difficult challenges of studying Shakespeare is breaking the language barrier.
There are several factors that often confuse the reader about the language of Shakespeare: the use of obsolete words, the order of sentence wording, and puns that depended on the meaning, usage, and pronunciation of words. For the first time reader of Shakespeare, the text may seem confusing and hard to translate, but it is important to understand that Shakespeare did indeed write in English, just a slightly different version of what we consider to be modern English.