Dylan



So far, Hamlet appears to be growing more unstable. The king and queen are more desperate to find out why and enlist the aid of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to ascertain the problem. Voltimand and Cornelius return and say that the king of Norway rebuked Fortinbras for stirring against Denmark and wishes to attack the Poles. Polonius announces that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia and concocts a plan to prove it; the king and queen approve his scheme and the he confronts Hamlet. Hamlet feigns madness, but also throws in some truths, which Polonius notices. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask Hamlet what is wrong. They admit that the king and queen put them up to this. An acting troupe arrives and Hamlet demands one of them give a speech about Troy ; afterwards Hamlet declares that the players shall play //The Murder of Gonzago,// but with an added speech that he writes himself.