Prince Hamlet learns from the ghost of his dead father, that this by his brother Claudius, the current king of Denmark, was brutally murdered in their sleep. The spirit urges Hamlet to revenge on the criminals at. Hamlet feigns madness in order to learn the truth and take revenge on his uncle finally able to. The over-zealous Lord Chamberlain Polonius holds the confusion of the Prince of unrequited love for his daughter Ophelia. The queen, Hamlet's mother, believes in mourning over the death of the father and the ...