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In the play Hamlet by Shakespeare, what is the dramatic significance of act III scene IV?
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ARUN S DSOUZA SR 4 C ST MARY'S CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH COURSEWORK - PRE 1914 PROSE 23RD APRIL 2003 Q. IN THE PLAY "HAMLET" BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WHAT IS THE DRAMATIC SIGNIFICANE OF ACT III SCENE IV? Hamlet is known to be the most popular play written by Shakespeare. It is also, by a significant margin, the longest of Shakespeare's plays. It has been translated to many languages and has become the subject of excited and critical debate more than any other work of literature. The play was written around 1602 or 1603 at a period of time when Elizabethan London was a melting pot of unprecedented intellectual and artistic ferment. In Elizabethan England the conviction that retaliation for murder was solely the prerogative of the state and its legal institutions clashed with an irrational but powerful feeling that private individuals cannot be blamed for taking vengeance into their own hands, for ensuring that the...
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