This scene takes place again outside the castle in Elsinore, Denmark, where the Ghost was first sighted. The witching hour has struck and Hamlet, with Marcellus and Horatio, waits for the Ghost. There are trumpets and the firing of ordinance in the distance. The King has begun his nightly revelries which, by Hamlet's account, has made the Danes appear as drunkards to other states in Europe. Now the Ghost appears and, although Marcellus and Horatio try to stop him, Hamlet goes off with the Ghost. His friends disobey.....
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