ii: Hamlet asks questions about the ghost, and Horatio assures him that it looks exactly like Hamlet's father. Hamlet's Question About the Ghost (01:11)Īct I, sc. ii: Horatio tells Hamlet that he has seen an apparition of Hamlet's father. Hamlet makes subtle reference to a quick death and hasty marriage. ii: Hamlet is overjoyed to see Horatio and Marcellus, his good friends from Wittenberg. Hamlet's Wittenberg Friends (01:05)Īct I, sc. ii: Hamlet's anger at his mother's behavior and his dislike of Claudius is strong, yet he must hold his tongue. She seemed to love Hamlet's father, yet within a month of his death, she married her husband's brother, Claudius. ii: Hamlet agonizes over his mother's behavior. Hamlet's Agony Over Queen's Behavior (01:03)Īct I, sc. He urges Hamlet to stay in Denmark and not go back to Wittenberg.
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ii: Claudius reprimands Hamlet for his "impious stubbornness." He tells Hamlet that it is unmanly behavior. Claudius Reprimands Hamlet (02:13)Īct I, sc. He intimates that his grief is real whereas her grief and that of King Claudius are merely for show. The Queen asks Hamlet why he hangs on to his grief for his father.
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ii: King Claudius approaches Hamlet, who gives him a surly reply. Claudius gives Laertes permission to return to France, but only after Polonius, Laertes' father, consents. ii: King Claudius dispatches Voltimand and Cornelius to implore Norway to rein in his nephew Fortinbras. ii: Claudius announces that young Fortinbras has been "pestering" him for the return of lands lost by his father in an earlier battle with the former (and now dead) King Hamlet. He announces that he has taken the former king's queen to be his wife. ii: Claudius honors his dead brother and former king.
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Claudius Weds Brother's Wife (01:03)Īct I, sc. The three men decide to tell Hamlet what they have seen. i: The ghost appears again and walks right past Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio. Ghost Appears to Hamlet's Friends (01:46)Īct I, sc. Now, his son, young Fortinbras, is coming to demand the return of the lands given up by his father. Old King Hamlet killed King Fortinbras in a battle years ago.
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i: Marcellus questions the appearance of the apparition. Horatio believes the appearance "bodes some strange eruption to our state." Threat to Denmark (01:29)Īct I, sc. i The ghost appears in the garb of the former ruler King Hamlet. Bernardo insists that the apparition appears at night in the very place they stand. i: Marcellus, Bernardo, and Horatio talk about an apparition that has been seen around the castle. This is the opening of the RSC's production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Ghost Sighting (01:05)Īct I. i: Bernardo relieves Francisco at the watch on a platform before the castle.
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A repeat of the earlier EastEnders episode garnered 672k (4.4%) for the channel at 10.50pm.Hamlet: Royal Shakespeare Company Production: Opening Scene (01:13) FREE PREVIEWĪct I, sc. BBC Two was third with 7.7%, followed by Channel 4 with 6.2% (+1: 0.6%) and Five with 3.4%.īBC Three documentary spinoff EastEnders: The Sins Of Archie Mitchell performed well for BBC Three, with 551k (2.6%) tuning in at 7.30pm, then 455k (4.1%) watching a repeat at 11.20pm. Overall, BBC One averaged 27.9% in primetime to ITV1's 22.2%.
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The audience then dropped to 3.05m (14.2%) for comedy pilot The All Star Impressions Show with Stephen Mulhern.įive dedicated the night to reruns of classic CSI episodes again, peaking with 896k (4.7%) for its 10pm screening.Ĭhannel 4 managed 1.32m (6%) for its showing of movie classic Crocodile Dundee, then at 9pm, documentary Decoded: Dan Brown's Lost Symbol interested 1.38m (6.1%). Victorian Farm Christmas followed on the channel with 1.14m (5.1%), then the audience leaped to an impressive 3.11m (14.1%) for a rerun of The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show.īBC One averaged 6.06m (27.3%) between 7.30pm and 10pm for a screening of movie sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.ĮastEnders was the most-watched programme of the day on any channel, averaging 8.13m (37.9%) between 7pm and 7.30pm.Īnt & Dec's Christmas Special averaged a healthy 6.78m (30.8%) between 7.30pm and 8.45pm, then All Star Family Fortunes followed with 5.8m (25.8%). The televised version of the stage play, which also starred Patrick Stewart, averaged 896k (4.5%) for BBC Two over a lengthy three hours from 5.05pm. David Tennant's performance of Hamlet failed to draw a significant audience on Saturday (December 26), early figures suggest.