ABSTRACT
When Hamlet lays a trap for his uncle Claudius to check if he really has killed his father as the Ghost has suggested, he chooses the device of the theatre. When the players arrive at Elsinore he asks the Player King to put on the Murder of Gonzago:
We’ll ha’t to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in’t, could you not?
