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no matter how old Hamlet is, it is important to remember that his mother probably wasn't THAT much older than he. it was common to marry a man over twice your age and hve children by the age of fifteen, therefore I think it is difficult to say that gertrude was too old to be playing, but hamlet was not...
Posted by ella on March 25, 1997 at 12:34:50
In Reply to "Hamlet *is* young..." posted by Justin Bacon on March 21, 1997 at 16:42:35
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