Hamlet · Character

Player Queen

Actress in the play-within-a-play, playing the queen.

minor

First appearance: act iii scene ii

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

This scene is the dramatic climax because it marks the psychological and moral peak of King Claudius’s interna…

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