Tudor True Crime
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Shakespeare's Hamlet
Shakespeare's almost taking the trouble to in tha key scene of hamlet, to add a little bit of promotional puff for another play in the repertoire. The audience would not only get this scene in hamlet, they'd also say, ah, yes, that was in the one we saw a few months ago about the der of george sanders. So it's a playhouse world that feeds on its own sort of internal references and puffs within the theatrical jargon.
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