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Hamlet Study Guide

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by William Shakespeare
About 308 pages (92,332 words)
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Act 4, Scene 4 Summary

On a plain in Denmark, en route to England, Hamlet encounters vestiges of the Dane's almost foe, Fortinbras, who now goes after a meaningless "little patch of ground" in Poland for which many will now die. The thought of all this warring and death over something so little steels Hamlet to possess, unyielding, "bloody" thought of revenge. For, if Fortinbras will die over nothing, Hamlet, who has an incestuous mother and a murdering father, has cause.....

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