appearance and reality

• Appearance and reality

  Mack?

  20th

  'the play within the play tends to dissolve the normal barriers between the fictive and the real'
• Appearance and reality

  Leverenz?

  20th

  'no wonder Hamlet weeps at the sight of a genuine actor playing Hecuba's grief... the role, though feigned, as least is openly played'
• Comedy

  Spies?

  'a comedy in tragic fashion'
• Comedy

  Herbert?

  19th

  'the comic element of the play is madness'