Deprecated: Return type of ExplodeIterator::current() should either be compatible with Iterator::current(): mixed, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/StringUtils.php on line 571
Deprecated: Return type of ExplodeIterator::next() should either be compatible with Iterator::next(): void, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/StringUtils.php on line 585
Deprecated: Return type of ExplodeIterator::key() should either be compatible with Iterator::key(): mixed, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/StringUtils.php on line 578
Deprecated: Return type of ExplodeIterator::valid() should either be compatible with Iterator::valid(): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/StringUtils.php on line 603
Deprecated: Return type of ExplodeIterator::rewind() should either be compatible with Iterator::rewind(): void, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/StringUtils.php on line 553
Deprecated: Return type of ResultWrapper::current() should either be compatible with Iterator::current(): mixed, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/db/DatabaseUtility.php on line 186
Deprecated: Return type of ResultWrapper::next() should either be compatible with Iterator::next(): void, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/db/DatabaseUtility.php on line 203
Deprecated: Return type of ResultWrapper::key() should either be compatible with Iterator::key(): mixed, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/db/DatabaseUtility.php on line 196
Deprecated: Return type of ResultWrapper::valid() should either be compatible with Iterator::valid(): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/db/DatabaseUtility.php on line 212
Deprecated: Return type of ResultWrapper::rewind() should either be compatible with Iterator::rewind(): void, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/db/DatabaseUtility.php on line 175
Deprecated: header(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($response_code) of type int is deprecated in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 38
Deprecated: header(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($response_code) of type int is deprecated in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 38
Deprecated: header(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($response_code) of type int is deprecated in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 38
Deprecated: header(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($response_code) of type int is deprecated in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 38 http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=ExplicationExplication - Revision history2026-05-04T04:37:18ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.22.1http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php?title=Explication&diff=15087&oldid=prevAdministrator: /* Scene 9 */2022-06-01T16:08:44Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Scene 9</span></span></p>
<table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'>
<col class='diff-marker' />
<col class='diff-content' />
<col class='diff-marker' />
<col class='diff-content' />
<tr style='vertical-align: top;'>
<td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:08, 1 June 2022</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 235:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 235:</td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>R & G arrive at Gertrude's room, and tell her, and Claudiius, that Hamlet will talk to her.  While they're all in Gertrude's room, Hamlet arrives and finds the King's Room empty.  He steps inside, and hides behind an arras, to wait for Claudius, to kill him.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>R & G arrive at Gertrude's room, and tell her, and Claudiius, that Hamlet will talk to her.  While they're all in Gertrude's room, Hamlet arrives and finds the King's Room empty.  He steps inside, and hides behind an arras, to wait for Claudius, to kill him.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(From the start of the next Scene, the Prayer Scene, Hamlet will be present in Claudius's room, hiding.  He'll hear everything said in that Scene, except Claudius's brief speech in closing.  The above is how he got there.  This is how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hamlet </del>will know of the trip to England, as he'll mention toward the end of the Closet Scene, Scene 11.  Hamlet will also hear Polonius say that he'll hide in Gertrude's room to eavesdrop.  This point, of Hamlet being present from the beginning of Scene 10, has been missed in earlier commentary, in other sources, because of a failure to appreciate the technical nature of the stage directions in the Second Quarto.  Most commentators on ''Hamlet'' have had only literature backgrounds, which has left them unprepared to address, or even notice, the technical nature of the Q2 stage directions.  Essentially, the stage directions in Q2, when they use a character's proper name, primarily mark an actor being in his speaking position onstage, to perform the playscript, since the Q2 publication is only the playscript, very nearly.  The stage directions in Q2 are not director's notes about an actor's physical presence onstage.  Thus, in Q2, an actor can be onstage without having yet received his entry; he'll get his playscript entry when he has lines.  There's more to the Q2 stage directions, since, as mentioned, they're technical, but that's the immediate point for understanding Hamlet's presence at the beginning of Scene 10.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(From the start of the next Scene, the Prayer Scene, Hamlet will be present in Claudius's room, hiding.  He'll hear everything said in that Scene, except Claudius's brief speech in closing.  The above is how he got there.  This is how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hamlet </ins>will know of the trip to England, as he'll mention toward the end of the Closet Scene, Scene 11.  Hamlet will also hear Polonius say that he'll hide in Gertrude's room to eavesdrop.  This point, of Hamlet being present from the beginning of Scene 10, has been missed in earlier commentary, in other sources, because of a failure to appreciate the technical nature of the stage directions in the Second Quarto.  Most commentators on ''Hamlet'' have had only literature backgrounds, which has left them unprepared to address, or even notice, the technical nature of the Q2 stage directions.  Essentially, the stage directions in Q2, when they use a character's proper name, primarily mark an actor being in his speaking position onstage, to perform the playscript, since the Q2 publication is only the playscript, very nearly.  The stage directions in Q2 are not director's notes about an actor's physical presence onstage.  Thus, in Q2, an actor can be onstage without having yet received his entry; he'll get his playscript entry when he has lines.  There's more to the Q2 stage directions, since, as mentioned, they're technical, but that's the immediate point for understanding Hamlet's presence at the beginning of Scene 10.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Claudius and R & G leave Gertrude's room, where she waits for Hamlet, and they go to Claudius's room, the King's Room.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Claudius and R & G leave Gertrude's room, where she waits for Hamlet, and they go to Claudius's room, the King's Room.</div></td></tr>
</table>Administrator Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: MWExceptionHandler::report(): Argument #1 ($e) must be of type Exception, Error given, called in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/Exception.php on line 678 and defined in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/Exception.php:598
Stack trace:
#0 /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/Exception.php(678): MWExceptionHandler::report(Object(Error))
#1 [internal function]: MWExceptionHandler::handle(Object(Error))
#2 {main}
thrown in /home/public/hamletwiki/includes/Exception.php on line 598