Cornelius

Family: Danish court · Role: ambassador · First appears: Hamlet · Act I, Scene II

Life events

• Claudius dispatches Cornelius and Voltemand to Norway to suppress Fortinbras’s military preparations.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene II · 📍 Norway)
  • With: Claudius Fortinbras Voltemand Norway
  • “And we here dispatch You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand, For bearers of this greeting to old Norway”

Hamlet · Act I, Scene II

• liege: Claudius “In that, and all things, will we show our duty.”

Hamlet · Act II, Scene II

• with Claudius (Cornelius is serving as an ambassador reporting to the King.) “Th’ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, Are joyfully return’d.”

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