One of the greatest plays ever written was Shakespeare, "Hamlet-. In "Hamlet-, there is plenty of room for interpretation because, first of all it is a play, and second the writer does not give you painted scenery in which to imagine the characters, and setting. ... A perfect example of this is Tolstoy's, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich-; even though this is a short story the author does not give you any room for interpretation. ... One of the most important scenes in "Hamlet- is the "to be or not to be- scene. ... In one of the Hamlet movies, this scene is set as Hamlet being inside a t...

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Don Quixote, and even Shakespeare's Hamlet, have been labeled as containing elements of metafiction; and in this regard some critics claim that the definitions for metafiction, and their application, are too broad to be used with much precision. ... From a philosophical standpoint Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the founders of postmodernist thinking, stated that "there are no facts, only interpretations." ...

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