LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Macbeth
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Twelfth Night
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Hamlet
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -From The Murder of Gonzago to Hamlet’s pretence of madness, Hamlet is a work obsessed with acting and deception.
Detailed explanation-2: -The play-within-a-play in Hamlet is called both The Murder of Gonzago and The Mousetrap. (Specifically, in Act 3, Scene 2, when Claudius asks, “What do you call the play?” Hamlet responds, “The Mousetrap.")
Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius asks Hamlet for the play’s title, to which Hamlet replies, The Mousetrap. He says that the play presents the true story of a murder carried out in Vienna. He explains the action of the play, and Ophelia congratulates Hamlet for his story-telling skill.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mousetrap may not be Hamlet, but it does borrow its title from Shakespeare’s masterpiece. When Christie had to change the title of her play Three Blind Mice because a recent West End play had the same name, she looked to the Bard.