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.
What would best make the first player a complex character?
a. If he responded less emotionally to Hamlet
b. if he expressed mourning for Hamlet’s father
c. if he remained focused on his part in the play
d. if his responses to hamlet were repetitive