Hickory dickory agatha christie7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() So the play-within-a-play is designed as a trap for Claudio. ![]() Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. May be the devil, and the devil hath power Play something like the murder of my fatherīefore mine uncle. Hamlet wagers that if the ghost's story is true, Claudio will not be able to help reacting in a way that betrays his guilty conscience: In that play, Gonzago is murdered in exactly the same way that the ghost claims he himself was: his wife's lover poured poison in his ear. ![]() So to verify the ghost's story, Hamlet comes up with the plan of staging The Murder of Gonzago before Claudio. Hamlet's father's ghost has told him that Claudio is a murderer, but Hamlet worries that perhaps the ghost is an evil spirit deliberately misleading him. In order to understand why The Mousetrap is an appropriate title for Christie's play, let's look at the play-within-a-play in Hamlet. In fact, it refers to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which Hamlet cryptically calls the play depicting the murder of the king, ‘The Mousetrap’. The stage play had to be renamed on the insistence of another producer, Emile Littler, who had used the name on stage before the Second World War, and it was Agatha Christie’s son-in-law, Anthony Hicks who suggested the new title. The story was adapted from a radio play, Three Blind Mice, written for the Royal family in 1947. Yannis shared this information from the official Agatha Christie website: As and have said in the comments, the play's original title Three Blind Mice had to be changed because there was an earlier play with the same title. ![]()
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