FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Source of Hamlet’s anger
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Book Hamlet is reading
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The play within a play
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mousetrap (also known as The Murder of Gonzago) is a play that Hamlet has visiting actors perform in order to determine whether or not his uncle, Claudius, is guilty of murdering his father, King Hamlet . The plot closely resembles the murder of King Hamlet, to trap Claudius into revealing his guilt.
Detailed explanation-2: -Initially called “Three Blind Mice, ” it debuted as a 30-minute radio play on the queen’s 80th birthday in 1947. Christie later extended the play and renamed it “The Mousetrap”-a reference to the play-within-a-play performed in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Essentially, we get to see a “play within a play.” When the characters of the play we are watching become the actors and audience members of a play within that play. The concept of a play within a play (or a story within a story) comes from the French saying mise en abyme, or “placed into abyss.”
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie.
Detailed explanation-5: -This play-within-a-play not only helps Hamlet to judge Claudius’s guilt, but also acts as a spur for his own revenge: it shows him the murder that was done to his father and the murder that could be done to his uncle.