Overview
Character Name
Horatio
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dramatic Function
Confidant, Foil, Narrator/Chorus
Relationships
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
The Danish court of Elsinore
Analysis
Hamlet’s best friend from university, Horatio is Hamlet’s most loyal companion throughout the play: informing him of the visitation of his father’s ghost, and, at the end of the play, telling the dying Hamlet that he would rather follow him to the end and commit suicide
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