Summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Act I In Act I of Hamlet, the ghost of the king hamlet comes to the battlement, outside a castle in Denmark. Marcellus and Horatio ask the ghost to speak, but It remains silent. In Scene 2 the new king, King Claudius, King Hamlet's brother, is reprimanding Prince Hamlet for depressed. Claudius and Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, tell Hamlet to get over his father's death. Gertrude married Claudius one month after King Hamlet …showed first 75 words of 216 total…

…showed last 75 words of 216 total…goes to see if what Marcellus is telling him is true. Sure enough it is. The ghost beckons Hamlet to follow him; and then he talks to him. The ghost tells him that Claudius killed him by putting poison in his ear. The ghost wants Hamlet to bring Claudius revenge. In the last scene, the ghost tells Hamlet that it is not Gertrude fault that he has died. He thinks that Claudius has brainwashed her.