—for Amak Baldjun (1942-2011)

A SCENE from Hamlet: The indecisive prince invites the travelling players into Elsinore. He is planning something clever, shrewd, and dangerous: he will provoke the new king, Claudius. Hamlet calculates that the king will have a violent reaction to the drama he is preparing—and will thus reveal his crime as the murderer of his own brother, the old king, Hamlet the elder.

This is a defining scene in Shakespeare�