Look
at: Act 4 Scene 6. After Hamlet is sent to England
it is usual in productions, based on the Folio,
for letters to arrive for the King, Queen and Horatio. We
hear nothing of what Hamlet says to the Queen - if indeed
she ever receives the letter - as we only see the messenger
speak to Claudius. This production, however, replaces this
with the First Quarto scene where Gertrude is told on-stage
by Horatio about the plot against Hamlet's life. Immediately
she talks of treason and it seems certain that from now on
she believes Hamlet's account of events.
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