He compared the character to King Claudius in Hamlet.

King Claudius is like the mouse.

Hamlet's trying to catch King Claudius, to get him to admit what he did to his father.

"I want you to pretend the man in the chair is King Claudius," Ms. Donovan said.

Ophélie leaves the garden and King Claudius enters.

King Claudius is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

Of course, both of them being serious statesmen, they did not consider the possibility that someone might identify them with the murderous King Claudius.

Queen Gertrude and the newly crowned King Claudius sit, one on each side of the stage, watching the action throughout the play.

While dying of the same poison, he implicates King Claudius.

Derek Jacobi as King Claudius, the story's antagonist and brother of the late king.