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Immediately Hamlet is set on the gun platform of Elsinore castle, characterising the tension in Denmark. This night time scene holds more significance to the Elizabethan audience than to the contemporary as the introduction of the Ghost of Old Hamlet ensnares the audience with its supernatural prowess. Certainly the probing question that is the incipit of the play suggests that things are quite right in the State of Denmark and position the audience to feel skewed by what they are witnessing. importantly Hamlet is absent in the first scene, showing that the major characters are only as significant as the minor roles.

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