What’s The Worst Thing You Can Do To Shakespeare

An offstage drinking party ensues somewhere below us, Claudius’s custom so Hamlet says. He offers a bit of late-night pop psychology about folks who get caught up in a repetition compulsion—“the stamp of one defect” (1.4.31) and such, earning Danes a drunken name—until Horatio shuts him up: “Look, my lord, it comes” (1.4.38). ................
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