Shakespeare: Protean Plays Final
Tyler Stoltenberg
English 339: Special Topics
Professor Wendy Wall
June 2008
Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1 Lines 168-223
Sometimes referred to as "Gravedigger" in scripts, Clown is used and both Quartos and the Folio. They are clearly gravediggers by profession, but clown indicates that they were common people and probably played by the comic actors in Shakespeare's companies.
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