Summary Detailed timeline of all 'Hamlet' scenes

AIS1
BARNARDO, HORATIO, MARCELLUS, GHOST Speak of HAMLET and Denmark, war
preparations (death, afterlife, religion, corruption, kingship, vengeance, heroism)

AIS2
Mourning: CLAUDIUS supporting/speaking to POLONIUS, LAERTES, OPHELIA,
HAMLET (kingship, remembrance, authority, power, performance

Too too solid flesh (grief, disgust, corruption, mourning, remembrance)

HAMLET'S friends tell him of GHOST (death, afterlife)

AIS3
LAERTES and POLONIUS issue warning against men/HAMLET to OPHELIA (love,
submission, danger, authority)

AIS4
GHOST motions HAMLET over (desperation, religion, afterlife)

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (darkness, corruption, war)

AIIS1
POLONIUS sending REYNALDO to spy on LAERTES (spying, deception, corruption)

OPHELIA describes HAMLET'S madness and POLONIUS blames her (madness,
performance, love, loyalty, submission, power, fatherhood)

AIIS2
CLAUDIUS tells R+G of HAMLET'S madness and requests they spy on him (spying,
deception, corruption, fatherhood, power, authority, suspicion)

AMBASSADORS speak of FORTINBRAS (power, authority, kingship, heroism, vengeance)

POLONIUS reads love letter from HAMLET to OPHELIA (love, innocence)

Make plans to spy on meeting of lovers (supsicion, spying, corruption, fatherhood, deception,
power)

HAMLET taunts POLONIUS, using antic disposition as excuse (madness, power, authority)

R+G greet HAMLET and he is suspicious of them - what a piece of work is a man (loyalty,
deception, spying, suspicion, corruption, isolation, guilt)

PLAYERS perform avenging son Pyrrhus, helpless Priam (inaction, delay, power,
vengeance, heroism, love)

HAMLET asks to play Murder of Gonzago (action, dynamism, authority)

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I (inaction, delay, inadequacy, isolation, heroism
undermined, anticlimax, reflection, vengeance, pragmatism)

, AIIIS1
R+G report to CLAUDIUS and GERTRUDE about HAMLET'S crafted madness (madness,
spying, deception, corruption

GERTRUDE shows real concern towards OPHELIA (love, loyalty, submission)

POLONIUS will spy on lovers and CLAUDIUS confesses aside (spying, deception,
corruption, guilt, kingship)

To be or not to be (existentialism, death, inaction, reflection, religion, delay, inadequacy)

OPHELIA rejected by HAMLET, realises spied on - get thee to a nunnery (performance,
madness, love, guilt, submission, sympathy, loyalty, corruption, spying, deception, religion)

HAMLET exits and OPHELIA speaks of him sadly (suffering, victim, submission, love,
innocence, loyalty, sympathy)

CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS will spy on GERTRUDE and HAMLET (spying, deception,
corruption)

AIIIS2
HAMLET directs PLAYERS on performance (spying, suspicion, vengeance, inaction, delay,
pragmatism)

HORATIO will keep watch of CLAUDIUS for HAMLET, (loyalty)

HAMLET, OPHELIA talk before play (madness, submission)

Play reflects situation of CLAUDIUS and GERTRUDE negatively, (delay, inaction,
vengeance, heroism)

R+G confess and mention CLAUDIUS is upset with play (loyalty, deception, corruption)

Now could I drink hot blood (vengeance, heroism, death, religion, corruption, inadequacy,
dynamism)

AIIIS3
CLAUDIUS, R+G discuss how they must watch HAMLET carefully by sending him to
England (kingship, suspicion, corruption, loyalty)

POLONIUS says he will spy on HAMLET and GERTRUDE (syping, deception, corruption)

CLAUDIUS prays - my offence is rank (corruption, guilt, desperation, reflection)

HAMLET sees and decides not to kill now (dyanism, inaction, delay, afterlife, death,
religion, pragmatism, heroism, vengeance)