An older version of this play gives a Latin name for a disabled old man, Corambis, to one of its characters, and is known as its "bad" quarto.
An older version of this play gives a Latin name for a disabled old man, Corambis, to one of its characters, and is known as its "bad" quarto. Tina Packer's book Women of Will says that a line of female characters "dying to tell the truth" begins with a woman in this play who describes the protagonist as "the glass of fashion and mould of form." In a scene linked to the dismissal of William Kempe, a character in this play admonishes to "be not too tame, either, and let your own discretion be your tutor" and (*) "Speak the speech, I pray you;" that criticism of clowns that opens its Act 3, Scene 2. Originating in the story of a prince described by Saxo Grammaticus, this play is thought to draw on a lost "Ur-" work about a character with the same name by Thomas Kyd. The plays The Mousetrap and The Murder of Gonzago are put on in-- for 10 points--what play set in Elsinore castle?
An older version of this play gives a Latin name for a disabled old man, Corambis, to one of its characters, and is known as its "bad" quarto.
Hamlet