Many scholars are puzzled about who created the seventeenth-century abridgment of Shakespeare's Hamlet contained in t...

AnkitM April 3, 2016

Answer choice E?

Why is the answer not E? The stim states that the person did not possess a copy of the Hamlet. The reason I crossed off C was because I assumed that the actor would have a copy of the Hamlet since they are acting it out. And if C is correct then why can't D be correct? Perhaps the spectator paid attention in the beginning of the play and therefore only one of the speeches was a very accurate rendering. Thanks in advance.

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larry August 10, 2016

C didn't make much sense to me either, apparently this question suggests an actor in Hamlet is not supposed to have a copy of the play.

avif May 21, 2020

I was very confused by the question but I picked D. I assumed that people in the play would know the whole play better than one of the spectators.