Hamlet

Why is a clock mentioned in act 1 when there were not yet such a thing as clocks?

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This is called an anachronism. It is an inconsistency in some chronological arrangement. In this case, there were clocks in Shakespeare’s time but not in Hamlet's. Shakespeare wrote it in because he thought it helped the plot or suspense in some way.