Hamlet  
Britain in Print
Act 2, scene 2 - lines 485-540
 

1. What’s going on?

b. How does Shakespeare suggest Hamlet’s feelings in the line ‘O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!’? How does this line contrast in mood and content with the last lines of this soliloquy: ‘The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’

 
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