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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Act V: Scene 1

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Brodwin, Leonora
Affiliation: Associate Professor Of English, St. John's University

Act V: Scene 1

The scene takes place in a graveyard near the castle at Elsinore on the
following day. Two gravediggers, who are to be played by clowns, are
discussing the funeral rites of the lady for whom they are preparing a grave.
It appears that she is to have a Christian burial though, to their way of
thinking, she was clearly a suicide and they resentfully see this as a result
of her high position: "And the more pity that great folk should have
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