 The audience, you know, obviously the play, that would be an anachronism, but the audience didn't care, and Shakespeare surely didn't care about anachronism. And the first words of the play are, who's there as the guards call for the ghost? And that's really the question of the play. If God is gone, if we can't trust the church, who are we? What are we doing? And it ends, the play ends with Hamlet, Horatio saying of Hamlet, put him on the stage, because if he were a play,