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indecision and his fretting over several different ideas at one time. Correspondingly Samuel Coleridge stated 'Saw in the prince a man whose intellectual energy and alertness understandably makes action impossible', both of these critics incorporating the idea that the audience is manipulated to sympathise with Hamlet as Shakespeare portrays him as a character who the audience can relate to. Another feature of the interpretation of the play is that, if the play were to be shown in Shakespeare's time the audience have a fair idea of what they are going to see. They know it's a revenge tragedy therefore somewhat limiting their reaction. However today's audience wouldn't be quite so well informed, consequently it is safe to deduct that the audience watching this play in modern times would be slightly more responsive towards Hamlet than in the time it was written. In act three, scene one the audience is placed with...

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