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Time in the Play of Hamlet
Between the first and second acts, one--and the principal one--of the two intervals in the play occurs; a lapse of time, as will hereafter be shown, of a little more than two months.
Chapters
4. ACT I. opens when the late king was
while in the third act the time since his death is stated to be "twice two months." The interval is, therefore, two months, or a little more. During this time Hamlet, in pursuan...
2. Act iv. commences with a continuation of the events of the same night,and there is no reason for thinking the action of the final scene to be delayed beyond the close of the same day, for in it Hamlet concludes his explanations to Horatio, and is...
1. ACT I., Scene i., of the tragedy of "Hamlet" opens at midnight andBetween the first and second acts, one--and the principal one--of the two intervals in the play occurs; a lapse of time, as will hereafter be shown, of a little more than two mo...
5. ACT II., Scene i., to ACT IV., Scene iii., inclusive, covers two days3. ACT II., Scene i., to ACT IV., Scene iii., inclusive, covers two daysand the night following the second day; and, after a second interval, the events of two days are given in ACT IV., Scene v., and the remaining scenes of the play.