Summary Act III
Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 SCENE 1 Distressed to hear, that despite their best efforts, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had failed to get at the source of his nephew's distemper, Claudius eagerly becomes an accessory to another one of Polonius' spying schemes. This time Ophelia is to confront Hamlet and to dissimulate a spurned lover. The trap is sprung, but what follows--a scathing diatribe of humankind in general--is so far off from what Polonius believes to be the source of Hamlet's distemper, that Claudius, fearing for his own safety, decides to send Hamlet to England at once, arguing that a change of scenary would do his nephew good
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