Ghost

Also known as: King Hamlet · Role: Hamlet's father · First appears: Hamlet · Act I, Scene IV

Life events

Ghost appears before Hamlet and his companions.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene IV)
- “Enter Ghost.”
Hamlet breaks free from Horatio and Marcellus and follows Ghost.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene IV)
- With: Hamlet
- “By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me. I say, away!—Go on, I’ll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.]”
Ghost reveals he is Hamlet’s father’s spirit, condemned to wander and suffer after death.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene V)
- With: Hamlet
- “I am thy father’s spirit,”
Ghost reveals that his brother murdered him and seized his life, crown, and queen.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene V · 📍 my orchard)
- With: Hamlet
- “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand, of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch’d;”
Ghost commands Hamlet to avenge the murder, and Hamlet immediately commits himself to revenge.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene V)
- With: Hamlet
- “May sweep to my revenge.”
The Ghost visits Hamlet and urges him to renew his purpose and address the Queen.(Hamlet · Act III, Scene IV)
- With: Hamlet
- “Do not forget. This visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. But look, amazement on thy mother sits. O step between her and her fighting soul. Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. Speak to her, Hamlet.”

child: Hamlet (The Ghost is identified as Hamlet's dead father, King Hamlet.) “I’ll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane.”

child: Hamlet “Do you not come your tardy son to chide, That, laps’d in time and passion, lets go by The important acting of your dread command?”
married with Gertrude “This was your husband. Look you now what follows.”
siblings with Claudius “The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. ... This was your husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildew’d ear Blasting his wholesome brother.”

Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.