1. Powerpoint Shakespeare Cultural resource for busy executives

2. Hamlet – executive summary 1 Hamlet meets his father’s ghost

3. Hamlet – executive summary 2 Hamlet learns that his father was killed by his brother Claudius and Queen Gertrude.

4. Hamlet – executive summary 2 Claudius has quickly become king.

5. Hamlet – executive summary 3 This is rather upsetting

6. Hamlet – executive summary 4 The ghost demands revenge

7. Hamlet – executive summary 5 Hamlet agrees

8. Hamlet – executive summary 6 His friends swear to keep what they have seen a secret

9. Hamlet – executive summary 7 Meanwhile… the King’s advisor Polonius meets his daughter Ophelia. Hamlet has upset her.

10. Hamlet – executive summary 8 Hamlet is acting mad

11. Hamlet – executive summary 9 We learn that Fortinbras, King of Norway, has been persuaded to invade Poland instead of Denmark

12. Hamlet – executive summary 10 A troupe of players arrive Hamlet Play within play

13. Hamlet – executive summary 10 A troupe of players arrive Hamlet Play within play The murder of Gonzago

14. Hamlet – executive summary 11 Play contains lines which Hamlet writes to expose Claudius and Gertrude

15. Hamlet – executive summary 11 Play contains lines which Hamlet writes to expose Claudius and Gertrude

16. Hamlet – executive summary 12 Hamlet rages at his inability to kill Claudius

17. Hamlet – executive summary 13 Polonius accidentally killed by Hamlet

18. Hamlet – executive summary 14 Claudius wants Hamlet to go to England

19. Hamlet – executive summary 15 …where he will be executed

20. Hamlet – executive summary 16 Ophelia has been driven mad by father’s death and Hamlet’s rejection of her

21. Hamlet – executive summary 17 Laertes, Ophelia’s brother, swears revenge on Hamlet

22. Hamlet – executive summary 18 Hamlet returns to Danish court: Claudius suggests a duel between Laertes and Hamlet…

23. Hamlet – executive summary 19 …where the King will offer Hamlet a poisoned goblet

24. Hamlet – executive summary 20 Ophelia dies

25. Hamlet – executive summary 21 Hamlet muses on death at Yorick’s grave

26. Hamlet – executive summary 22 Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are killed

27. Hamlet – executive summary 22 Queen accidentally poisons herself

28. Hamlet – executive summary 23 Both duellists wounded by poisoned sword: Laertes reveals plot and Hamlet kills king

29. Hamlet – executive summary 24 Laertes dies

30. Hamlet – executive summary 25 Fortinbras arrives from Norway and discovers the carnage

31. Hamlet – executive summary 25 Hamlet dies

32. clever sane stupid mad Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio Rosencranz, Guilderstern

33. clever sane stupid mad Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio Rosencranz, Guilderstern Hamlet?

34. clever sane stupid mad Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio Rosencranz, Guilderstern Hamlet?

35. clever sane stupid mad Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio Rosencranz, Guilderstern Hamlet?

36. clever sane stupid mad Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio Rosencranz, Guilderstern Hamlet?