stating 
&gt; &gt; things such as
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Hamlet the fictional character
&gt; &gt; Hamlet an edition of the printed play
&gt; &gt; A performance of Hamlet
&gt; &gt; A performance of Hamlet captured on video and encoded as a bit stream
&gt; &gt; The text of Hamlet as character strings
&gt; &gt; What Fritz Lehmann has called a "conceptual work" - the timeless 
&gt; &gt; informational content of the play
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; These notions require a well worked out theory of semiotics but this woul