The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
[Pages:142]The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Table of Contents
Act 1 .................................... p. 5 Scene 1 .................................... p. 5 Scene 2 .................................... p. 11 Scene 3 .................................... p. 20 Scene 4 .................................... p. 24 Scene 5 .................................... p. 28
Act 2 .................................... p. 36 Scene 1 .................................... p. 36 Scene 2 .................................... p. 40
Act 3 .................................... p. 61 Scene 1 .................................... p. 61 Scene 2 .................................... p. 67 Scene 3 .................................... p. 81 Scene 4 .................................... p. 84
Act 4 .................................... p. 92 Scene 1 .................................... p. 92 Scene 2 .................................... p. 93 Scene 3 .................................... p. 95 Scene 4 .................................... p. 97 Scene 5 .................................... p. 100 Scene 6 .................................... p. 108 Scene 7 .................................... p. 109
Act 5 .................................... p. 116 Scene 1 .................................... p. 116 Scene 2 .................................... p. 127
Dramatis Personae
CLAUDIUS, king of Denmark. HAMLET, son to the late, and nephew to the present king. POLONIUS, lord chamberlain. HORATIO, friend to Hamlet. LAERTES, son to Polonius. LUCIANUS, nephew to the king. VOLTIMAND CORNELIUS ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN OSRIC
courtiers. A Gentleman A Priest. MARCELLUS BERNARDO
officers. FRANCISCO, a soldier. REYNALDO, servant to Polonius. Players. Two Clowns, grave-diggers. FORTINBRAS, prince of Norway. A Captain. English Ambassadors. GERTRUDE, queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet. OPHELIA, daughter to Polonius. Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and other Attendants. Ghost of Hamlet's Father.
SCENE Denmark.
HAMLET - Act I
Act I
Scene 1
Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
Who's there?
BERNARDO
FRANCISCO
Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
Long live the king!
BERNARDO
Bernardo?
FRANCISCO
BERNARDO
He.
FRANCISCO
You come most carefully upon your hour.
BERNARDO
'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.
FRANCISCO
For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.
Have you had quiet guard?
BERNARDO
Not a mouse stirring.
FRANCISCO
BERNARDO
Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
FRANCISCO
I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
5
Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
Friends to this ground.
HORATIO
And liegemen to the Dane.
MARCELLUS
Give you good night.
FRANCISCO
O, farewell, honest soldier: Who hath relieved you?
MARCELLUS
Bernardo has my place. Give you good night.
FRANCISCO Exit
Holla! Bernardo!
MARCELLUS
Say, What, is Horatio there?
BERNARDO
A piece of him.
HORATIO
BERNARDO
Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.
MARCELLUS
What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?
I have seen nothing.
BERNARDO
MARCELLUS
Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night; That if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
HORATIO
HAMLET - Act I 6
BERNARDO
Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story What we have two nights seen.
HORATIO
Well, sit we down, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
BERNARDO
Last night of all, When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one,--
Enter Ghost
MARCELLUS
Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!
BERNARDO
In the same figure, like the king that's dead.
MARCELLUS
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
BERNARDO
Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.
HORATIO
Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.
It would be spoke to.
BERNARDO
Question it, Horatio.
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
It is offended.
MARCELLUS
BERNARDO
HAMLET - Act I 7
See, it stalks away!
HORATIO
Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!
Exit Ghost
'Tis gone, and will not answer.
MARCELLUS
BERNARDO
How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale: Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on't?
Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
HORATIO
Is it not like the king?
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. 'Tis strange.
MARCELLUS
Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
HORATIO
In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
MARCELLUS
Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this same strict and most observant watch So nightly toils the subject of the land, And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, And foreign mart for implements of war; Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week; What might be toward, that this sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: Who is't that can inform me?
HAMLET - Act I 8
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