Within act III scene II of Hamlet, Shakespeare gives his readers his opinion as to what makes a good play through another person. The person he gives his opinion through is the character of Hamlet. In this particular scene, Hamlet is giving instruction to the players, those who will be performing the play, on how they should conduct themselves as they perform the play for the public. The purpose of this play is for Hamlet to be able to tell if Claudius is truly at fault for the death of Hamlet’s father the previous king or not. Hamlet wanted to make sure that his actors knew how to best perform the play so that if Claudius was guilty of killing the deceased King Hamlet would be able to easily tell by his reactions. Hamlet wanted to make sure
