What does the audience learn about the setting of the play from the opening lines of the first scene? Check all that apply.

The guards say it is “bitter cold,” so the audience learns that the weather is cold. The scene takes place at midnight, making it late at night, and the dialogue identifies the location as Elsinore, a castle. The opening establishes a threat of conflict with Norway, but it does not say the country is already at war or that the castle is near the sea.

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