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Ensure that you can discuss the idea of staging in this play.
Shakespeare cleverly anticipates what the audience might see as too much coincidence when Fabian says, If this were played upon a stage now / I could it as an improbable (III.4.108–9).
If this were played upon a stage now / I could it as an improbable
Ask yourself: How many lucky or improbable coincidences are there in the play, and do they add to or detract from the plot?