What does it mean when people refer to Hamlet's hiring of the players in Act IV as "the
play within a play?" What is Hamlet using these players to do?

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The presence of players and play-acting within the play points to an important theme: that real life is in certain ways like play-acting. ... In fact, most of the time people respond to their real-life situations with feelings and actions that are not based on certain knowledge. This is what Hamlet refuses to do.

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