Read the excerpt from Hamlet . Hamlet: Follow him, friends: we’ll hear a play to-morrow. [Exit POLONIUS, with all the Players but the First.] Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of Gonzago? First Player: Ay, my lord. Hamlet: We’ll ha ’t to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in ’t, could you not? First Player: Ay, my lord. To make the First Player a complex character, Shakespeare would need to make him
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represent a single idea.C
have a simple personality.A complex character has depth and may develop as the story progresses. Of these choices, having the First Player change over time would help make him more complex. Representing one idea, having a simple personality, or showing few emotions would make him less complex.
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