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A Rat Behind An Arras – No Pun Intended?
“Wasn’t it an arras behind which Polonius hid when Hamlet entered his mother’s boudoir? And when Hamlet heard him didn’t he cry ‘A rat!’, and couldn’t it be that Shakespeare was deliberately punning?” Continue reading
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Tagged arras, Bayeux Tapestry, Hamlet, Polonius, William Shakespeare
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