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.