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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

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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

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

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must have done it and if he doesn't react with

00:42

on the story doesn't serve the whole so the play

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itself this play within a play called the trap becomes

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a metaphor for how we often use plays in general

00:51

right which is teo gauge how people react to them

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but that's how we do it or not necessarily what

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we create but how we react to creations Why is

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shakespeare so font of having a play within his play

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So one because he was a smart guy and interested

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in the form of what he was doing in general

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right So he is interested in the play as such

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and he wants us as viewers to really consider what

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it means That we're at a play and not just

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experience it totally immersive Lee as it were also there's

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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

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itself allows youto have kind of these frame narrative so

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that you get totally different settings How does the mass

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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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