all very good points. and this is the reason why i need to find myself a copy of hamlet before i write anything! ^_^ i haven't read the play since late 2002, so certain things are understandably foggy.

i'm actually not too sure about the scene with ophelia. i'll have to see when i re-read it.

it's likely i'll work a lot more with hamlet and horatio. i know they were in germany going to school together, and i imagine they were there for quite a while, being aristocrats and such. it's quite possible that hamlet went to boarding school even before college age, as well, which would add sense to horatio's having not seen the king many times. but i assume that they've known eachother for quite a while... at least more than a few years. again, i very much need to re-read the play before i can set down any plot, heh,