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Pyrrhus
also: Пирр
The son of Achilles who avenges his father by slaughtering the aged Trojan king Priam; the subject of the Player's speech in Hamlet Act 2, which the Baron recites from memory.
Reading notes
- The Baron §36 Pyrrhus
The son of Achilles who avenges his father by killing the aged Trojan king Priam; the Baron declaims the Player's speech on Pyrrhus's slaughter from Act 2 of Hamlet.