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  2. Fortinbras - Wikipedia

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    Fortinbras / ˈ f ɔːr t ɪ n b r æ s / is a minor fictional character from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. A Norwegian crown prince with a few brief scenes in the play , he delivers the final lines that represent a hopeful future for the monarchy of Denmark and its subjects.

  3. Talk:Fortinbras - Wikipedia

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    Both Horatio and Claudius say that young Fortinbras is planning to attack Denmark to recover the land his father had lost. Fortinbras is motivated by ambition, not revenge. I think it would be appropriate to include the relevant quotes, which could stand by themselves, with no need for interpretation: Horatio (1,1,108-120): ". . . .

  4. Critical approaches to Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Within Hamlet, the stories of five murdered fathers' sons are told: Hamlet, Laertes, Fortinbras, Pyrrhus, and Brutus. Each of them faces the question of revenge in a different way. For example, Laertes moves quickly to be "avenged most throughly of [his] father", while Fortinbras attacks Poland, rather than the guilty Denmark.

  5. Characters in Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    What follows is an overview of the main characters in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, followed by a list and summary of the minor characters from the play. [1] Three different early versions of the play survive: known as the First Quarto ("Q1"), Second Quarto ("Q2"), and First Folio ("F1"), each has lines—and even scenes—missing in the others, and some character names vary.

  6. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    "Caviar to the general" Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 ...brevity is the soul of wit, Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't, There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  7. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Fortinbras, who was ostensibly marching towards Poland with his army, arrives at the palace, along with an English ambassador bringing news of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's deaths. Horatio promises to recount the full story of what happened, and Fortinbras, seeing the entire Danish royal family dead, takes the crown for himself and orders a ...

  8. Hamlet and His Problems - Wikipedia

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    The Hamlet of the supposed earlier play also uses his perceived madness as a guise to escape suspicion. Eliot believes that in Shakespeare's version, however, Hamlet is driven by a motive greater than revenge, his delay in exacting revenge is left unexplained, and that Hamlet's madness is meant to arouse the king's suspicion rather than avoid it.

  9. Hoist with his own petard - Wikipedia

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    A central critical question in Hamlet is the degree to which Hamlet hesitates and procrastinates, or whether he is coldly determining Claudius's guilt and waiting for an opportunity to exact his revenge. One pivotal point in this question is the "Hoist with his own petard" speech: does it indicate merely that Hamlet suspects the plot against ...