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 | | Burleigh then became the Queen’s closest adviser and confidante, thus becoming, in effect, the new “King”: In the play, with poetic license, Burleigh has been split into two characters to conceal and reveal this: he is both Polonius and the new King. |
 | | One of the sources of the play is the work of Severinus Dane, (the “Melancholy Dane”). |
 | | Bacons doctrine of spirits, or ghosts, as set forth in his History of Life and Death, is illustrated in exact detail in the play, in the character of the Ghost, or Spirit of Hamlet’s father. |
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