doltishly

Wilton's wife, Eustacia (Heather Lee), dithers doltishly, vaguely suggesting Billie Burke and making inane remarks until she--in the manner of 1930s airheads--reveals unsuspected brains and hidden motives.

(Hamlet's "What a piece of work is man.." is presented as mere mockery of the doltishly played Rosencrantz and Guildenster.) Schreiber's Hamlet begins the play at his greatest pitch of grief, punch-drunk with despair at his father's death.