Act3-1.2

__**Summary**__
The act begins with King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius and his daughter Ophelia, courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Because Hamlet's madness arising from acts of attention, the King and Queen summoned two of Hamlet former classmates and good friends, asked them to accompany the Prince and find out the reason of their strange behavior. To determine whether it's love that's making Hamlet suffer, the King and Queen secretly used Ophelia to test Hamlet. So both Claudius and Polonius hid, Ophelia stood there, looked natural that she was alone. Hamlet knew that Ophelia lied to him, evaded, severely scolded her meal.  Hamlet was teaching the actors how to perform the play. To emphasize Claudius' guilt, he wanted the to use all gently, suit the action to the word and the word to the action. At the same time, Hamlet met his two friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and a keen found that they had the King sent to monitor their own, even mocking curse two.  The play began. During the play, Hamlet especially asked Mum Gertrude how was it. When the King Claudius saw his crime had been moved to the stage, fear endless hurried exit, which Hamlet determined the King Claudius was the murderer.

__**Questions **__
1. Who was a bait? 2. Why Hamlet's speech does not seem like the speech of insanity? 3.Why Hamlet instructs the players on the art of acting? 4.What is the purpose of the play? 5.Why the King hurried exit during the play？

By:Gillian Xu. Vincent Wang