Abstract
In the opening scene the soldiers do something fundamental to the play:
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they ask questions.
Appropriately, the very first line is in this form; one guard hears a noise and makes the customary challenge. By the end of the play one character, Hamlet, believes that all that happens is within the providence of God (5.2.165), so possibly the question is bigger than the guard thinks. Is there anybody there watching this violent human drama with the compassion of a creator?
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© 1998 Richard Gill
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Gill, R. (1998). Hamlet. In: Mastering Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14551-5_20
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