Summary – “Hamlet” Act I The story begins outside castle Ellsinore where guards are exchanging each other at duty shifts. Two more guards Horatio and Marcellus join the guard Bernardo, whose shift just begun. Bernardo tells the story to his companions in which a ghost, who looks like the late king of Denmark, visited the guarding place last two knights. While his telling the story the ghost appears. Horatio who supposedly knows how to talk to …showed first 75 words of 408 total…

…showed last 75 words of 408 total…ruin her reputation. Daughter complies. In the next scene Hamlet is standing guard at the castle and when the ghost appears he wants to talk to Hamlet alone. Hamlet fids out from his father that his uncle poisoned him and married his wife. He asks Hamlet to revenge him. Hamlet forces the guard to swear on his sword never to talk about what they saw no matter if Hamlet acted crazy. Then they leave together.