In this summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet: 1) The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to Hamlet and tells him that his uncle Claudius murdered him. 2) Hamlet devises a plan to expose Claudius as a murderer by having a play performed that mirrors the murder. 3) During an argument with his mother, Hamlet mistakes Polonius for Claudius and kills him, believing he is revenging his father's death. 4) Hamlet eventually escapes to stop a pirate ship, but vows to return to Denmark to seek further revenge.

1. Group Members:
Fernando De toro
Yeray Macarro
Jose Francisco Daspenas
Eric Salguero
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare

2.  Who are the main characters?
Character Small description
Hamlet ( Eric) Prince of Denmark
Claudius ( Fernando) King of Denmark, uncle of
Hamlet
Polonio ( Yeray) Advisor of King and queen
Gertrudis ( Jose) Mother of Hamlet
Ophelia ( Eric) Girlfriend of Hamlet
Father of Ophelia ( Fernando) Father of Ophelia

3. SCENE I
State the most important actions:
In this scene, the new king Claudius and his wife
celebrate a party for their marriage.
Hamlet hates this marriage so he goes to walk
for the roof to the castle.
While he walk, the ghost of his death father
appears and the ghost said that Claudius killed
him and that he have to revange his death.
When the ghost disappears, Hamlet don’t know
what to do.

9. SCENE I
 Vocabulary and pronunciation
 Roof : Techo.
 The roof needs patching to stop the rain from
coming in.

10. SCENE II
State the most important actions: When the
advisor see to Hamlet talk with himself he
believes that cause is that Hamlet loves Ofelia
and he don’t know why she ignore him and for his
excuse Hamlet is going mad.
The queen and the king decide that two men
have to cheer to Hamlet.

18. SCENE II
 Vocabulary and pronunciation
 Mousetrap: /ˈmaʊstræp/ Ratonera

19. SCENE III
State the most important actions: Hamlet tries
expose to Claudius like a murder of his father in a
play. But the play is interrupted for the new king.
When Hamlet goes to talk with his mother about
what did Claudius with the king Hamlet, the
queen is angry and in the discussion, Hamlet kill
to Polonio believing that he was a rat.

20. The story so far: Prince Hamlet believes that
his uncle, King Claudius, killed his father by
putting poison in his ear while he was
asleep. In the last episode, Hamlet’s friends
Rorencratz and Guildenstern brought some
actors to the castle to perform a play. Hamlet
saw this as an opportunity to expose
Claudius as his father’s murderer.

28. SCENE III
 Vocabulary and pronunciation
 Guess: /ges/ Adivinar

29. SCENE IV
State the most important actions:The son of
Polonios goes to castle for kill to king, but he
don’t know that the murer of his father is Hamlet.
The king thinks to plan for kill to Hamlet with the
help of soon of Polonios.
When Hamlet hearing of the intentios of the new
king, he escape to Rosencrantz and Guildestern.
But he will go to stop to pirate ship.

36. SCENE IV
 Vocabulary and pronunciation
 Beginning: /bɪˈgɪnɪŋ/ comienzo

37. SCENE V
 State the most important actions:
 Hamlet gets goes to Denmark for revange. When
he arrives he have to fight with swords with the
son of Polonius. But the swords have poison but
also the drinks.

46. SCENE V
 Vocabulary and pronunciation
 Both: /bəʊθ/ ambos

47.  I have had a copy of this comic for almost 20
years. It was published in a magazine for EFL
teachers called SpeakEasy. I do not know the
author.