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Like the ~>lry-acene f the final scene of the Princess's
production took place in the grounds of the castle. It moved
quickly to its climax, outti ig by half the exchange between
Hamlet and Laertec, and losing in the process Laertes's canny
reminder that their present reconciliation ir, only a temporary
truce (238-242), Iraniet tried his foil anxiously ~,t
"Your Gr ce hath laid the odds o 1 the weaker ci ie" (promptcroy).
Tlio "Daily Nc-.7c admired the "singular spirit" of the
fancing, and the "ingenious dexterity" of the momentary disarming
of Laertes, which resulted in the exch-inge of weapons.
Other reviewers were not co well satisfied, raonr them The
Entr'acte and Punch. The letter grve a facetiour. account of
the sequence:
The ,j tabbing the King w r -s absurd, as the unhappy
•rinncr waited for Hamlet to come and kill him,
and then, though Hamlet only parsed his sword
palpably outside his body, where the rapirr showed
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