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Hamlet as Hero and Joker Choose three examples of Hamlet's wordplay: puns, riddles, double entendres, insults, jokes and other verbal wit and virtuosity. Please explain what each of your examples means (a paragraph or so) and why each is appropriate for Hamlet to say.

Hamlet is a very humorous hero, and though his jokes and witticisms were often dry, subtle and sarcastic. Under his breath, for example, he says of his mother Gertrude and Uncle Claudius that they are "a little more than kin, and less than kind," meaning that they have committed murder, incest and adultery in order to take over the country and remove Hamlet's father from the scene. They may sometimes regret their crimes, but that still does not prevent Claudius from acting like a Machiavellian Prince and continually plotting to murder him. To call him a little less than...

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He even tells his friend Horatio that if life as the Prince of Denmark does not work out, he will "with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players," by which he means that he will join a traveling company of actors. Of course, he is next in line to be king of Denmark and such work would have been far beneath his status and dignity, yet it seems possible that Hamlet might actually have done it.
He even jokes with his enemies like Polonius, Rosencrantz…

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