FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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In his madness, he believes that he is really a great actor, not the Prince of Denmark.
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He is helping them remember their lines, because he does not want to disappoint his mother when she watches the play.
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He is merely showing off his superiority, to keep in character with his masquerade of being mad.
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He does not want the parts to be over-acted. He wants it to appear as natural and as real as possible, so it will hit home to the King.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q: What is the reason for Hamlet giving instructions to the players? The reason Hamlet gives instructions to the players is that he wants them to enact a scene similar to how he thinks his father was killed. He wants to see how Claudius reacts to the scene.
Detailed explanation-2: -From Hamlet’s speech to the players in the beginning of act III, scene ii, many have inferred that Shakespeare was using it to show his philosophy of acting. Our interpretation was that Hamlet was giving that players advice on how to act better, based on how he has been faking his outbursts in real life.
Detailed explanation-3: -He needs the play to catch his uncle in the act of being guilty because of the recreated scene of his father’s death. If his uncle shows that he is guilty in any way, Hamlet will know for sure that He killed his father.
Detailed explanation-4: -Polonius enters to announce the arrival of the players, who follow him into the room. Hamlet welcomes them and entreats one of them to give him a speech about the fall of Troy and the death of the Trojan king and queen, Priam and Hecuba.