Read the excerpt from hamlet. hamlet: follow him, friends: we’ll hear a play to-morrow. [exit polonius, with all the players but the first.] dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the murder of gonzago? first player: ay, my lord. hamlet: we’ll ha ’t to-morrow night. you could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which i would set down and insert in ’t, could you not? first player: ay, my lord. to make the first player a complex character, shakespeare would need to make him represent a single idea. have few emotions. change over time. have a simple personality.

To make the First Player a complex character, Shakespeare would need to make him (c) change over time.

one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.

you are perfect just the way you are