ABSTRACT

A JOKE ON THE ARBAT IN FIVE SCENES A COMPOSITION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM

CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – called Gumozkin

THEATER MANAGER – called Fyodor Semyonovich

DIRECTOR – called Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov 1

KING – Claudius

LAERTES

POLONIUS

QUEEN – Gertrude

NOVIKOV – the actor playing HAMLET

OPHELIA

GUILDENSTERN

ROSENCRANTZ

A COURTIER

COURTIERS, VENDORS AND VARIOUS OTHERS