Hamlet: be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature . .
–hamlet,
william shakespeare
based on the passage, what is hamlet’s opinion about theater?
actors should try to represent people as they really are.
plays should impart a moral or religious lesson.
actors are too tame and should be as loud and emotional as possible.
the theater is not a proper place for someone who is modest and virtuous.