In Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, the actors and their performance underline the importance of theater and its power. Players arrive in Act2 Scene2. They are announced by a trumpet blast, which is usual when the actors arrive; Yet, this is the second time in the scene that we hear such a grand entrance, the first being that of the King and Queen at the start of the scene, so a feeling of similar importance is immediately evoked for the players. Hamlet himself welcomes with great warmth and “entertainment”. He has great admiration for these people and their lifestyle, which offers the freedom of duty and expression that Hamlet lacks. Through them we see him explore role-play and wordplay in a way that he himself cannot, in Shakespeare's use of Hamlet as our guide to the world of theater and as a too contemplative avenger. Already, in Act 2 Scene 2, we see that Hamlet is devising schemes and deceptions, as he warns against his artificial madness: "I am but a fool from the north-northwest . When the wind comes from the south, I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. (2, 2, 374-5) and thus we see that he already adopts certain tricks of a gambler in order to hide his true ideas, making himself appear crazy. Later in the scene, we see Hamlet trying to further gain some affinity with the players, fostering a speech from the first players, prompting a speech from the first player, which refers to the attack on Troy. Shakespeare used Marlowe's Dido as a source and manipulated it to create a greater relevance to "Hamlet" and Hamlet which is reflected by the character of Phyruss, who is more of a dark thinker than a reckless avenger, which reminds us our first images of Hamlet in his “ink cloak”. Yet Hamlet plays...... middle of paper ... so this alternative questioning of our key protagonist could somehow be seen as a fulfilling role, an abstract fool. The Gambler King elaborates on his views on action, such as: “What we propose to ourselves in passion, passion ending, is the goal lost. » (3, 2, 189-190). However, Hamlet is too caught up in the Indeed, he needs “passion”, like that of the players, to take revenge. Instead, he waits for the “ripe fruit” to fall, a sign that the time is ripe or propitious. The actors and their performance serve to underline the analysis of theater and its power in "Hamlet", and as functions to make objective comparisons with the "real" characters of the play and provoke their actions and thoughts in their thoughts on what has happened and what is to come in the murders of old King Hamlet and the inevitable murder of Claudius.