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CHARACTERS
Francisco: soldier on guard who is only too happy to be relieved
Bernardo: officer who relieves Francisco and who is an eyewitness of the Ghost
Marcellus: officer who tries in conjunction with Bernardo to convince
Horatio of the existence of the Ghost
Horatio: Hamlet's friend and Wittenberg (university) schoolmate who has his doubts about Bernardo and Marcellus' claim that Elsinore is haunted by a ghost in the likeness of Prince Hamlet's deceased father
Claudius: Hamlet's uncle who is the current king of Denmark on account of his marriage to Hamlet's mother, the widowed queen of Denmark
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