THis speech occurs at the end of II,ii after Hamlet has witnessed a travelling player recite lines from an old play dealing with the destructiopn of Troy. The lines relate to the grief of queen Hecuba for her husband, King Priam, killed by Pyrrhus. Hamlet is so impressed by the emotion engenderted by the actor thta he becomes critical of his own behaviour in not having moved more decisively against Claudius. He describes himself …
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…up the king's evil nature as he is both a murderer and the seducer of Hamlet's mother. The repetition of 'villian' and the assonance of 'remorseless,treacherous,lecherous,kindless' provide a feeling of hysteria to the speech before Hamlet once more turns upon himself. The speech ends with the phrase 'About my brains' after which Hamlet devises the plan to test the King's guilt by staging a play in which his crime will be represented.