Danish Court — Minor Figures
4 figures from Shakespeare's Tragedies who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Player Queen
queen and mother of Hamlet · first appears Hamlet · Act III, Scene II
- Hamlet · Act III, Scene II · child: Hamlet “The Queen your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you.”
- Hamlet · Act III, Scene II · married with Player King “Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands / Unite commutual in most sacred bands.”
Yorick
jester · first appears Hamlet · Act V, Scene I
- Hamlet · Act V, Scene I · with Hamlet “I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”
Cornelius
ambassador · first appears Hamlet · Act I, Scene II
- Hamlet · Act I, Scene II · liege: Claudius “In that, and all things, will we show our duty.”
- Hamlet · Act II, Scene II · with Claudius “Th’ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, Are joyfully return’d.”
Voltemand
ambassador · first appears Hamlet · Act I, Scene II
- Hamlet · Act I, Scene II · liege: Claudius “In that, and all things, will we show our duty.”
- Hamlet · Act II, Scene II · with Claudius “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.