What is the play within the play?

Consider this: What is the point of a play within another play?

The play within the play is crucial because it helps develop the plot and confirms Hamlet’s doubts about Claudius's killing of his father. Critic Edelman Charles said: "The Mousetrap is in its entirety a methodically drawn-out process of imposing pain/discomfort.

What happens in Hamlet's play within a Hamlet play? The play-within a-play is about Gonzago, Duke of Vienna and Baptista, his wife. He marries Lucianus, his murdering nephew. Hamlet believes the play provides an opportunity to prove Claudius' guilt more reliably than the ghost's claims.

This is how Shakespeare plays are a play within another play.

Hamlet: The play within the play. Hamlet, from The Murder of Gonzago through Hamlet's pretence of madness to Hamlet's pretension of madness is an obsession with deception and acting.

Hamlet calls the play with the play the play.

Claudius questions Hamlet about the title of the play, and Hamlet responds, The Mousetrap. He says that the play tells the true story about a Vienna murder. Ophelia praises Hamlet's story-telling skills and explains the play. Claudius raises his voice and asks for the lighting of the lamps.