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Fort is one of several foils to Hamlet in the play - that is, figures with enough in common that we are made more aware of the differences. One of the intriguing sub-questions of the play has to do with the job of kingship. S goes out of his way to show that Claudius, for all his sin, is good at the job, and to imply that Hamlet, for all his virtues, would be bad at it. How about Fort? Is he perhaps the golden mean? Or is he (as he is freqently played) just an opportunist?Posted by Hamlet on April 01, 1997 at 09:01:58
In Reply to "Fortinbras: A new Historicist Perspective" posted by Melanie on March 30, 1997 at 11:30:11
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