Hamlet: Synopsis
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Hamlet's Response to a Play
Rosencranz and Gildenstern encountered a troop of traveling actors on their way to Elsinor who are coming to perform for the court. Hamlet says that they will be welcome and have their performance interrupted. A sound of horns indicates the offstage arrival of the acting troop, also called the players. The three discuss that these actors typically perform in the city, which city, who knows? Due to apparently no longer attracting the same audience numbers in the city as they once did, they are now choosing to tour to Denmark and Elsinor.
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