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| | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Stephen Roth |
 | | The place itself, moreover, thus acquires a personality, and even develops a sort of sinister power; so that when at last Hamlet does depart from it (his duty still unfulfilled) and we are left with the conscience-sick Gertrude and the guilty King, the mad Ophelia, a Laertes set on his own revenge, among a |
 | | In the second Hamlets "not two months dead" and "within a month
" give past events convincing definition, and his "tonight
tonight
upon the platform twixt eleven and twelve" a specific imminence to what is to come. |
 | | The drama accommodating it is apt to concentrate upon one capital event, the approaches to it elaborately prepared; and with a master dramatist at workmotive after motive, trait after trait of character, will be unfolded like petals, till the heart of the matter is disclosed and the inevitable conclusion reached. |
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