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QuizMultiple Choice

Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama

Question 3 • CARE_24_25_TX-English IV A

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Ophelia:What means this, my lord?Hamlet:Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.Ophelia:Belike this show imports the argument of the play.Enter Prologue.Hamlet:We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel; they’ll tell all.Ophelia:Will he tell us what this show meant?Hamlet:Ay, or any show that you’ll show him; be not you ashamed to show, he’ll not shame to tell you what it means.Ophelia:You are naught, you are naught. I’ll mark the play.

Answer
A
mischief
B
argument
C
counsel
D
naught
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