Hamlet, still upset by his father’s death, sees the ghost of
his father, who tells him that he was murdered by Claudius.
The Ghost asks his son to avenge his death. Hamlet
pretends to go mad. Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, forbids
his daughter, Ophelia, to see Hamlet. Spied on by Polonius
and Claudius, Ophelia returns Hamlet’s love letters and is
violently rejected by him.