Study Guide

Hamlet Characters

By William Shakespeare

Hamlet is a teenager... right? After all, he sure acts like one. He's a moody and smart-alecky...

Ghosts are a common element in revenge tragedy (which you can read more about by going to...

Especially if he got it through sibling-cide and quasi-incest. That's our man Claudius, the...

Poor Hamlet. All he wants is a mom who bakes cookies for the PTA bake sale and stays true to his...

A Danish lord, Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia. And he's exactly the kind of dad...

Your parents only wish they had a daughter like Ophelia. When her father orders her to quit...

Laertes, a young Danish lord, is the son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia. He spends most of...

Horatio is Hamlet's closest friend, and he's the only one who really seems to deserve the title....

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern seem incapable of functioning independently, so they're basically...

We like to think it's no coincidence that Fortinbras' name makes a great chant: "FortinBRAS!...