∗ghosts ask questions the living cannot answer

The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.

My hour is almost come, When I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames Must …

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special o…

For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both…

∗Shakespeare opens with sentinels interrogating the supernatural, establishing a world where certainty fractures under scrutiny.

A Danish prince encounters his father's ghost and descends into madness seeking vengeance.