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Crack open your copy of Hamlet, because it's time to discuss what happens during the course of Act I. Sadly, it has nothing to do with ham.
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Why did Shakespeare write a play within a play? What were his thoughts on the game Mouse Trap? The answer to one of these questions is waiting in this video.
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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's hamlet The mousetrap Alas
- 00:09
shmoop How does the mass trap play such a significant
- 00:14
role in hamlet So hamlet basically is already in a
- 00:18
place of suspicion and he has been told by the
- 00:20
ghost that his uncle claudius has killed his father the
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- 00:24
ghost now so he does this really interesting thing He
- 00:27
decides that he's going to construct a play that is
- 00:31
going to reiterate the plot of his father's death on
- 00:36
dh Then watch claudius to see how he reacts to
- 00:38
it and see if he reacts strongly Well then he
- 00:40
must have done it and if he doesn't react with
- 00:42
on the story doesn't serve the whole so the play
- 00:45
itself this play within a play called the trap becomes
- 00:48
a metaphor for how we often use plays in general
- 00:51
right which is teo gauge how people react to them
- 00:54
but that's how we do it or not necessarily what
- 00:56
we create but how we react to creations Why is
- 01:01
shakespeare so font of having a play within his play
- 01:04
So one because he was a smart guy and interested
- 01:07
in the form of what he was doing in general
- 01:08
right So he is interested in the play as such
- 01:11
and he wants us as viewers to really consider what
- 01:14
it means That we're at a play and not just
- 01:16
experience it totally immersive Lee as it were also there's
- 01:20
a simple reason that it's a really like fun way
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Tohave interlude like having having a stage on the stage
- 01:28
itself allows youto have kind of these frame narrative so
- 01:31
that you get totally different settings How does the mass
- 01:38
trap play such a significant role in hamlet Why is
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shakespeare so fond of having a play within his play 00:01:46.727 --> [endTime] What Oh
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