Barnardo

Family: Denmark · Role: sentinel · First appears: Hamlet · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• A ghost appears before the watchmen in the likeness of the dead King.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Horatio Marcellus
  • “Enter Ghost. BARNARDO. In the same figure, like the King that’s dead. MARCELLUS. Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.”
• The apparition vanishes when the cock crows.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Horatio Marcellus
  • “It was about to speak, when the cock crew. HORATIO. And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.”
• Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo reveal to Hamlet that his father’s apparition has appeared on watch.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene II · 📍 Elsinore)
  • With: Hamlet Horatio Marcellus
  • “Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch In the dead waste and middle of the night, Been thus encounter’d. A figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-à-pie, Appears before them”

Hamlet · Act I, Scene I

• with Francisco (Barnardo relieves Francisco as sentinel.) “Barnardo has my place.”
• with Marcellus (They share alternating watches.) “If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.”

Hamlet · Act I, Scene II

• liege: Hamlet “Our duty to your honour.”

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