Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . Claudius: Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in ’t? Hamlet: No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i’ the world. Claudius: What do you call the play? Hamlet: The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is the duke’s name; his wife, Baptista. You shall see anon; ’tis a knavish piece of work: but what of that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. Hamlet’s character is complex in the excerpt because