This document summarizes key scenes and characters from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It describes the main characters including Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Polonious, and Ophelia. It then summarizes the actions and important events in 5 scenes from the play, including Hamlet seeing his father's ghost, Hamlet staging a play to expose Claudius, Ophelia drowning, Hamlet returning to Denmark for revenge after learning of a plot against him, and his death at the end of the story after fighting with Polonious' son. Vocabulary words from each scene are also defined with phonetic pronunciations provided.