Word: shriven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life and death, Hamlet shows repeatedly that he is coldly vindictive and diabolically foresighted. He not only sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a sealed letter containing their own death warrants, but urges England's king to bump them off without warning-so that they cannot be shriven by a priest and will surely go to hell...