1. By: The Gertrude Group (published by: Sabrina Tibaudo)
Act Two
By: The Gertrude Group
(published by: Sabrina Tibaudo)

2. Scene One Polonius asks Reynaldo, his servant, to go and spy
on his son, Laertes.
Ophelia tells her father,
Polonius, that Hamlet broke
into her room looking
‘As if he had been loosed out of hell’.

3. Scene One (continued)
Once Polonius heard this news, he felt that the cause for Hamlet’s madness was his love for Ophelia.

4. Scene Two The king asked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s
childhood friends, to go
and spy on Hamlet to find
out why he was mad.
Polonius then came in and
told the king and queen that
Hamlet was mad with the love
for Ophelia.

5. Scene Two (continued)
Guildenstern and Rosencrantz talk to Hamlet, and Hamlet confesses to them that he was only pretending to be mad.
Polonius then arrives where Hamlet was ( and Polonius was then convinced of Hamlet’s madness) and with Polonius comes the actors.

6. Scene Two (continued)
Hamlet asks the actors to perform and after the performance, Hamlet pulls one of the actors aside and asks him to include a dozen or so lines in the play that was supposed to reenact Hamlet’s father’s death.

7. Scene Two (continued) Hamlet then feels like a coward for instead of
avenging his father’s death
by killing Claudius, the new
king, he adds lines to a play
to see how Claudius reacts.

8. The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.