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for instance, Gonzago, the king, is murdered in the garden by his nephew, Lucianus; although King Hamlet is murdered by his brother, in The Murder of Gonzago--which Hamlet tauntingly calls "The Mousetrap" when Claudius asks "What do you call the play?"--the regicide is a nephew, like Prince Hamlet. However, it is also worth noting that each of the characters in the play-within-a-play maps to two major characters in Hamlet, an instance of the play's many doubles:
* Lucianus, like Hamlet, is both a regicide

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