• Hamlet, William Sakespeare

• Introduction
• Short Summary
• Detailed Summary
• Summary Act I-Scene-I
• Summary Act I, Scene II
• Summary Act I, Scene III
• Summary Act I, Scene IV
• Summary Act I, Scene V
• Summary Act II, Scene I
• Summary Act II, Scene II
• Summary Act III, Scene I
• Summary Act III, Scene II
• Summary Act III, Scene III
• Summary Act III, Scene IV
• Summary Act IV, Scene I-II
• Summary Act IV, Scene III-IV
• Summary Act IV, Scene V
• Summary Act IV, Scene VI-VII
• Summary Act V, Scene I
• Summary Act V, Scene II
• Character of Hamlet
• Character of Ophelia
• Themes & Topics
• University Questions & Answers
• Top 10 Quotes from Hamlet
• Best Quotes from Hamlet

Act I, Scene-II Detailed Summary of Hamlet: "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare

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Hamlet , queen Gertrude, king, Polonius and officers. The king gives an order to the officers for the king of Norway and they exit with it. Then the queen asks Hamlet to come to normal life and overcome the grief of his father's death. The king asks Hamlet to stop lamenting the death of his father :

"But to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness. '"

He further asks Hamlet to be a man of sense and shed off the melancholy tone. He declares Hamlet as next to throne and his son asking him not to go to Wittenberg for study. Hamlet agrees to stay in Denmark. When they are gone Hamlet in a soliloquy says that he is not happy and his heart pains over the incestuous deed of his mother marrying his uncle within one month of his father's death.

While Hamlet is alone Horatio and soldiers enter. Horatio consoles Hamlet but he asks him not to mock the marriage of his mother. Then they tell him about the ghost of his fatty seen at night. Hamlet tells them that he would visit them during the hour to talk to the spirit of his father.