On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
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Hamlet and the Ghost
Claudius and Polonius concoct a plan to find out if Hamlet knows something. They try to get a failure to sort of lie and wait for Hamlet while they spy on them. Hamlet betrays nothing, he's just really horrible to a failure. He asks some actors to perform a play that Hamlet wrote based on what he thinks happened between his uncle and his father. Claudius gets very agitated and storms out. The next scene opens in the house of a man named Polonius whose king Claudius' right hand man.
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