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“The Mousetrap”

“The Mousetrap”. “The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King". Revenge: initiated by the play, executed by an amateur. “But am I Pigeon-livered and lack gall”. What’s significant about the “Mousetrap”?. “Rich Iconographical Associations”.

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“The Mousetrap”

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  1. “The Mousetrap” “The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King"

  2. Revenge:initiated by the play, executed by an amateur “But am I Pigeon-livered and lack gall”

  3. What’s significant about the “Mousetrap”?

  4. “Rich Iconographical Associations” • Title of the play within a play is a “symbolic microcosm” of the entire play • Commonly used symbol • Mousetrap connotations • gluttony • corruption and dirtiness • Augustinian conception of the mousetrap • Saint Augustin – the cross as a mousetrap on which the devil was ensnared

  5. What else does culture tell us, dawg? • Deeper meaning in some lines • Hamlet’s vagueness contributes to his insanity • Yet he actually tells us exactly what he means more than the modern audience might think • This is through puns • “Get thee to a nunn'ry” (III, i, 120). • Double-entendre • Nunnery was slang for ‘brothel’ in Elizabethan England

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