- Claudius reveals that he sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a secret commission to have Hamlet executed there.
-Horatio tells Hamlet that Ophelia went mad and drowned herself after her father, Polonius, was killed. Then the King and Queen ordered a lavish ceremony as if she had been an honorable person, although this violated the holy rituals for proper burials.
-Horatio gives Hamlet two letters: one from Ophelia with which she professes her love towards him; and another letter that King Claudius had sealed; the said letter contained Hamlet's death warrant written by the King of England for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to execute him. It has also been written there that the Danish and Norwegian kings had formed an alliance and planned to attack Hamlet to avenge Prince Fortinbras, whom Prince Hamlet had recently beheaded, to the detriment of the king himself, but King Claudius had concealed both facts.