But I haven't read Hamlet for eons, and Tom Stoppard's play I only browsed! I'd have to read it first, see, and I'm presently without access to bookstores who could provide Stoppard.

Also, you asked for Darla and the Master punishing her - a good while ago, I wrote this challenge response for tm:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tm_darla/6059.html