Norway		one of the soldiers who tell Horatio of the ghost walking the battlements
Gertrude		smallest division of a play that might indicate a change of location
Ophelia		Hamlet's mother
Polonius		son of the chief councillor - he returns from France to avenge his father's death
Elsinore		councillor to the reigning king in the play
Rosencrantz		name of Hamlet's biological father
Laertes		Hamlet's uncle and stepfather
Denmark		Hamlet and his family are royalty in this country
Marcellus		Hamlet's closest friend - he met him at school
scene		country threatening attack during the play
soliloquy		character that shares the spoken secrets of another character
Hamlet		speech spoken when a character is alone on stage that reveals that charcter's thoughts
confidante		one of two childhood friends of Hamlet
Fortinbras		name of the Prince of Norway as well as that prince's deceased father
Claudius		large division of a play written by the author
act		capital city where the majority of the play takes place
Horatio		what Hamlet's father wants
revenge		Hamlet's love interest