Talk:Characters in Hamlet

Q1 Names
With regard to some of the {cn}s on this page, check out footnote 1. AndyJones (talk) 14:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. They are partly there as a naide-memoire to meself. There's some good material in Arden that I'll probably include in due course. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 14:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Fortinbras
Just thought I'd mention him. AndyJones (talk) 13:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Barnardo, Francisco and Marcellus
I've not made this edit, bcause I see the comment:  ===Barnardo and Francisco=== . However it seems to me there are a few errors in this bit, most significantly that Francisco is absent when the sentries tell Horatio about the Ghost. "He is the first sees the ghost" (sic) of Marcellus strikes me as misleading too since, for all we know, Barnardo may have seen him first on previous occasions.


 * Marcellus, Barnardo and Francisco are sentries at Elsinore. Francisco gives up his watch to Barnardo in the opening lines of the play, and it is Barnardo and Marcellus, who first alert Horatio to the appearance of King Hamlet's Ghost. Marcellus is the most prominent of the three. The role was played by Anthony Quayle in Olivier's version and by Jack Lemmon in Branagh's.

Re the above. I have amended this section of the main article slightly. Let me know if there is anything else that needs changing. The Please do not edit refers to the name of the section, not the contents of it--TimothyJacobson (talk) 02:26, 5 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I notice smatprt has removed the comment about "Marcellus is the most prominent of the three". I agree with all the other cuts he made (re the movies etc) but, as per the citation, Marcellus is the one of the three who has the most lines, and appears in the most scenes.  So, unless I hear otherwise within th enext few days, I'll restore that line--TimothyJacobson (talk) 01:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC)