’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forgèd process of my death rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy father’s lifeNow wears his crown.
Within a month,Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,She married. O, most wicked speed, to pot With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Gertrudes new love
no love for Claudius
A little more than kin and less than kin
The ghost of King Hamlet tells Hamlet that he was killed by his brother Claudius. He poisoned him while he was asleep in the garden.
Spying
That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time, so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught to us unknown aff licts him thus That, opened, lies within our remedy.
Less than 3 months after the death of King Hamlet, Gertrude falls in love and marries his brother Claudius, who then takes over the throne and becomes king of Denmark. Hamlet jr. is angry and thinks of his mother as stupid
Get over it
For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense,Why should we in our peevish opposition Take it to heart? Fie, ’tis a fault to heaven,A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,To reason most absurd, whose common themeIs death of fathers, and who still hath cried,From the first corse till he that died today,“This must be so.” We pray you, throw to earthThis unprevailing woe and think of usAs of a father
Hamlet is expressing how he feels toward Claudius and does not see him as a father figure at all
The Play
Claudius sends two of Hamlet's childhood friends to spy on him and to see if he is troubled.
Claudius is basically telling hamlet to get over the death of his father
Hamlet asks a theater group to perform a play that is very relatable to the death of King Hamlet. Hamlet plans to watch Claudis' reaction to the play to confirm if he really killed his father.