Hamlet Timeline

  • King Hamlet dies

  • The guards see King Hamlet's Ghost

  • Hamlet meets with ghost

  • Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are called upon by Claudius

  • Hamlet meets with players

  • To be or not to be Soliloquy, meets with Ophelia

  • Claudius refuses to continue to watch the play

  • Hamlet sees Claudius praying

  • Hamlet talks to his mother and kills Polonius

  • Hamlet is sent to England

  • Laertes storms back to Denmark

  • Horatio receives Hamlet's letter

  • Ophelia commits suicide

  • Claudius and Laertes devise a plan

  • Hamlet returns to Denmark

    witnesses Ophelia's burial
  • Fortinbras arrives to the scene

  • Hamlet duels Laertes

    Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Hamlet die
  • Hamlet is buried