Hamlet

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Hamlet

• Structure,
• Speeches, and Staging

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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 1 Gertrude/ Claudius
Scene 2 Ros and Gild seek Hamlet
Scene 4 Hamlet sees Fortinbras
Scene 3 Claudius sends Hamlet to England
Scene 7 Claudius and Laertes plans against
Hamlet Gertrudes report of Ophelias death
Scene 5 Gertrude Ophelias madness Laertes threat
Scene 6 Letter to Horatio from Hamlet
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 6
Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very
warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding
ourselves too slow of sail, we put ona compelled
valour, and in the grapple I boarded them on the
instant they got clear of our ship so I alone
became their prisoner. They have dealt with me
like thieves of mercy but they knew what they
did I am to do a good turn for them.
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 1 Gertrude/ Claudius
Scene 2 Ros and Gild seek Hamlet
Scene 4 Hamlet sees Fortinbras
Scene 3 Claudius sends Hamlet to England
Scene 6 Letter to Horatio from Hamlet
Scene 5 Gertrude Ophelias madness Laertes threat
Scene 7 Claudius and Laertes plans against
Hamlet Gertrudes report of Ophelias death
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 7
CLAUDIUS Sir, this report of hisDid Hamlet so
envenom with his envyThat he could nothing do
but wish and begYour sudden coming o'er, to play
with him.Now, out of this,-- LAERTES What out
of this, my lord? CLAUDIUS Laertes, was your
father dear to you?Or are you like the painting
of a sorrow,A face without a heart?
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 7
CLAUDIUS what would you undertake,To show
yourself your father's son in deedMore than in
words? LAERTES To cut his throat i' the
church. CLAUDIUS No place, indeed, should
murder sanctuarize Revenge should have no
bounds.
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 7
CLAUDIUS He HAMLET, being remiss,Most
generous and free from all contriving,Will not
peruse the foils so that, with ease,Or with a
little shuffling, you may chooseA sword unbated,
and in a pass of practiseRequite him for your
father.
CLAUDIUS PLOT 2
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 7
LAERTES I will do'tAnd, for that purpose, I'll
anoint my sword.I bought an unction of a
mountebank,So mortal that, but dip a knife in
it,Where it draws blood no cataplasm so
rare,Collected from all simples that have
virtueUnder the moon, can save the thing from
deathThat is but scratch'd withal I'll touch my
pointWith this contagion, that, if I gall him
slightly,It may be death.
LAERTES ONE PLOT
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 7
CLAUDIUS When in your motion you are hot and
dry--As make your bouts more violent to that
end--And that he calls for drink, I'll have
preparedhim A chalice for the nonce, whereon
but sipping,If he by chance escape your venom'd
stuck,Our purpose may hold there.
CLAUDIUS PLOT 3
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Hamlet -- Act IV
Scene 7
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,That
shows his hoar leaves in the glassy streamThere
with fantastic garlands did she come. . . Till
that her garments, heavy with their drink,Pull'd
the poor wretch from her melodious layTo muddy
death.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2 FOIL SCENE Hamlet/Horatio Laertes
challenge Duel Death of Gertrude/Claudius Death
of Laertes/Hamlet Fortinbras
Scene 1 GRAVEYARD SCENE Gravediggers/Hamlet Burial
of Ophelia
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
wilfully seeks her own salvation? I tell thee
she is and therefore make her gravestraight
the crowner hath sat on her, and finds
itChristian burial. How can that be, unless she
drowned herself in her own defense?
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
What is he that builds stronger than either the
mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? The
gallows-maker for that frame outlives a thousand
tenants. . . . when you are asked this question
next, say 'a grave-maker 'the houses that he
makes last till doomsday.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alex-ander
returneth into dust the dust is earth of earth
we make loam and why of that loam, whereto
hewas converted, might they not stop a
beer-barrel?Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to
clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind awayO,
that that earth, which kept the world in
awe,Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy he
hath borne me on his back a thousand times.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
What ceremony else? Her obsequies have been as
far enlargedAs we have warrantise her death was
doubtfulAnd, but that great command o'ersways
the order,She should in ground unsanctified have
lodgedTill the last trumpet for charitable
prayers,Shards, flints and pebbles should be
thrown onher Yet here she is allow'd her
virgin crants,Her maiden strewments and the
bringing homeOf bell and burial.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
Sweets to the sweet farewell!I hoped thou
shouldst have been my Hamlet's wifeI thought
thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,And not
have strew'd thy grave.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
Hold off the earth awhile,Till I have caught her
once more in mine arms Now pile your dust upon
the quick and dead,Till of this flat a mountain
you have made,To o'ertop old Pelion, or the
skyish headOf blue Olympus.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 1
What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis?
whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wandering
stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded
hearers? This is I, Hamlet the Dane.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2 FOIL SCENE Hamlet/Horatio Laertes
challenge Duel Death of Gertrude/Claudius Death
of Laertes/Hamlet Fortinbras
Scene 1 GRAVEYARD SCENE Gravediggers/Hamlet Burial
of Ophelia
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it, let us
know,Our indiscretion sometimes serves us
well,When our deep plots do pall and that
should teachus There's a divinity that shapes
our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
I found, Horatio,--O royal knavery!--an exact
command,Larded with many several sorts of
reasonsImporting Denmark's health and England's
too,With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my
life,That, on the supervise, no leisure
bated,No, not to stay the grinding of the
axe,My head should be struck off.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
HAMLET Why, man, they did make love to this
employment They are not near my conscience
their defeat Does by their own insinuation
grow'Tis dangerous when the baser nature
comesBetween the pass and fell incensed
pointsOf mighty opposites. HORATIO Why, what a
king is this!
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Not a whit, we defy augury there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
now, 'tis not to come if it be not to come, it
will benow if it be not now, yet it will come
thereadiness is all.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Give me your pardon, sir I've done you
wrongBut pardon't, as you are a gentleman. This
presenceknows,And you must needs have heard, how
I am punish'd With sore distraction. What I have
done,That might your nature, honour and
exceptionRoughly awake, I here proclaim was
madness.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
LAERTES This is too heavy, let me see
another. HAMLET This likes me well. These foils
have all a length?
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
The king shall drink to Hamlet's better
breathAnd in the cup an union shall he
throw,Richer than that which four successive
kingsIn Denmark's crown have worn.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
CLAUDIUS Gertrude, do not drink. GERTRUDE I
will, my lord I pray you, pardon me. CLAUDIUS
Aside It is the poison'd cup it is too late.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Hamlet, thou art slainNo medicine in the world
can do thee goodIn thee there is not half an
hour of lifeThe treacherous instrument is in
thy hand,Unbated and envenom'd the foul
practiseHath turn'd itself on me lo, here I
lie,Never to rise again thy mother's
poison'dI can no more the king, the king's to
blame.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
The point!--envenom'd too! Then, venom, to
thywork. Treason! treason! O, yet defend me,
friends I am but hurt. Here, thou incestuous,
murderous, damned Dane,Drink off this potion. Is
thy union here?Follow my mother.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
He is justly servedIt is a poison temper'd by
himself.Exchange forgiveness with me, noble
HamletMine and my father's death come not upon
thee,Nor thine on me.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Horatio, I am dead Thou livest report me and
my cause aright To the unsatisfied. . . . O
good Horatio, what a wounded name,Things
standing thus unknown, shall live behindme! If
thou didst ever hold me in thy heartAbsent thee
from felicity awhile,And in this harsh world
draw thy breath in pain,To tell my story.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
O, I die, HoratioThe potent poison quite
o'er-crows my spiritI cannot live to hear the
news from EnglandBut I do prophesy the election
lightsOn Fortinbras he has my dying voiceSo
tell him, with the occurrents, more and
less,Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet
princeAnd flights of angels sing thee to thy
rest!
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
The sight is dismalAnd our affairs from England
come too lateThe ears are senseless that should
give us hearing,To tell him his commandment is
fulfill'd,That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
deadWhere should we have our thanks?
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Hamlet -- Act V
Scene 2
Let four captainsBear Hamlet, like a soldier, to
the stageFor he was likely, had he been put
on,To have proved most royally and, for his
passage,The soldiers' music and the rites of
warSpeak loudly for him.