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When you approach a guard, the guard's job is to challenge you and ask who you are. But the first line of the play "who's there?" are not delivered by the guard on duty. Instead it is delivered by Bernardo, who has come to replace the guard. He knows there's a guard there, because he has come to replace him. So why is he not sure who is there? (We find out later, it's because he's not sure whether it might be a ghost)

In the first two words of the play, Shakespeare tells us that something is not right, just by putting them in the wrong character's mouth.

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