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There is a "play within a play" in Hamlet, called The Murder of Gonzago, it is often confused by The Mousetrap, but if you see the words The Mousetrap it will actually be The Murder of Gonzago
Shakespeare wrote his first play for the same reason he wrote all of them--for money.
It is not known exactly, but whether you are asking when he first wrote a play or when he first acted in one, the answer is the same: Between 21 and 28 years.
He doesn't. Hamlet tells Claudius that the name of the play is the Mousetrap, not the other way around. The actual name of the play is The Murder of Gonzago but Hamlet is using it to trap Claudius and so gives it a different name.
Henry VI Part III was the play referred to in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit in 1592 and so was the first of Shakespeare's plays to receive critical attention that we know of. He may have had success with other earlier plays that we do not know about.
Royall Tyler
The Mousetrap.
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There is a "play within a play" in Hamlet, called The Murder of Gonzago, it is often confused by The Mousetrap, but if you see the words The Mousetrap it will actually be The Murder of Gonzago
Shakespeare wrote his first play for the same reason he wrote all of them--for money.
First night refers to the first public performance of a play or show.
The Murder of Gonzago. Hamlet nicknames it The Mousetrap.
"The Mousetrap" is the Agatha Christie play that started in 1952 in London and is still playing today. It holds the record for the world's longest initial run of a play in one theatre.
It's called The Murder of Gonzago, but when asked, Hamlet calls it The Mousetrap.
August Strindberg
you have to watch it to find out, we are sworn to secrecy
i think it was August Strindberg who wrote Miss Julie.