Claudius: "How long hath she been thus?" – The timeline of Hamlet is somewhat crowded... At the start of the show, he's only recently been a student with Horatio in Wittenberg... Then we learn he's about thirty in the graveyard scene two acts later... And if he's just got back from studenting to bury his dad, how on earth did he find time to start flirting with Oaf...?!?