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The clowns, rather the gravediggers, talk like that because when they are talking Hamlet is not present. It is after one of the gravediggers has exited that Hamlet and Horatio enter.

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Q: Why do the clowns in act 5 scene 1 talk as though Hamlet is not present?
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