Dear Blue,
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a play about division and solidarity.
It begins with a question: “Who’s there?”
‘Who’s there?’ is asked by a person pretending to be a person named Barnardo.
Barnardo is “a sentry.” Barnardo is “a guard.”
We are “an audience.”
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The person pretending to be Barnardo is an actor. Shakespeare, who wrote the play, would have called the person pretending to be Barnardo “a player.”
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As a sentry, Barnardo is on the lookout. As a guard, Barnardo guards a castle.
For Barnardo it is the middle of the night.
For us it is just after the play Hamlet has begun.
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