FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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pretending
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imagination
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suspicion
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lying
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Detailed explanation-1: -He says, “Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them-for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered.”
Detailed explanation-2: -In confidence, Hamlet tells Horatio that he will pretend to be mad so that he may spy on his mother and uncle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Despite the evidence that Hamlet actually is mad, we also see substantial evidence that he is just pretending. The most obvious evidence is that Hamlet himself says he is going to pretend to be mad, suggesting he is at least sane enough to be able to tell the difference between disordered and rational behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -(I.v.) When the Ghost tells Hamlet about Claudius’s murder, Hamlet responds strangely: he tells his friend Horatio and the watchman Marcellus that he is going to pretend to be mad.