Did Polonius Know That Claudius Killed the King?
In Summation, There Is No Firm Evidence That Polonius Has a Hand in Hamlet's Father's Murder. However, Polonius Does Conspire to Spy on Hamlet, So in That...
In summation, there is no firm evidence that Polonius has a hand in Hamlet's father's murder. However, Polonius does conspire to spy on Hamlet, so in that sense he could be labeled a co-conspirator.
Who knows who killed King Hamlet?
The ghost tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius, the very man who now sits on the Danish throne. Claudius, who was the old king's brother, killed him while he slept in the garden one day by pouring poison down his ear.
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Does Gertrude know that Claudius killed Hamlet's father? ... In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the general scholarly consensus is no, the Queen does not know that Claudius killed Hamlet's father until Hamlet tells her.
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