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27 CHAPTERS

Ongoing Story

Hamlet

Not only wasHamletone ofWilliam Shakespeare’smost popular works during his lifetime, it is also considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature. “To be, or not to be,” a line from one of Hamlet’s soliloquies, is one of the most widely known quotes in modern English and has been referenced in countless works of literature, theater, film, and music. During a dark winter night Horatio and a pair of...

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CHAPTERS

27

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 Voltimand, courtier Cornelius, courtier ...

Act 1

Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Francisco: Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo. Bernardo: Who’s there? Francisco: Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. Bernardo: Long live the k...

Scene 1 1

Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Francisco: Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo. Bernardo: Who’s there? Francisco: Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. Bernardo: Long live the k...

Scene 1 2

A room of state in the castle. King: Enter King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimand, Cornelius, Lords, and Attendants. King: Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green,...

Scene 1 3

A room in Polonius’ house. Laertes: Enter Laertes and Ophelia. Laertes: My necessaries are embark’d: farewell: And, sister, as the winds give benefit And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, But let me ...

Scene 1 4

The platform. Hamlet: Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus. Hamlet: The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. Horatio: It is a nipping and an eager air. Hamlet: What hour now? Horatio: I think it lacks...

Scene 1 5

Another part of the platform. Ghost: Enter Ghost and Hamlet. Hamlet: Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I’ll go no further. Ghost: Mark me. Hamlet: I will. Ghost: My hour is almost come, When I to sulphu...

Act 2

A room in Polonius’ house. Polonius: Enter Polonius and Reynaldo. Polonius: Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. Reynaldo: I will, my lord. Polonius: You shall do marvellous wisely, good Rey...

Scene 2 1

A room in Polonius’ house. Polonius: Enter Polonius and Reynaldo. Polonius: Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. Reynaldo: I will, my lord. Polonius: You shall do marvellous wisely, good Rey...

Scene 2 2

A room in the castle. King: Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Attendants. King: Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! Moreover that we much did long to see you, The need we have ...

Act 3

A room in the castle. King: Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. King: And can you, by no drift of circumstance, Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so ...

Scene 3 1

A room in the castle. King: Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. King: And can you, by no drift of circumstance, Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so ...

Scene 3 2

A hall in the castle. Hamlet: Enter Hamlet and Players. Hamlet: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I ha...

Scene 3 3

A room in the castle. King: Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. King: I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you; I your commission will forthwit...

Scene 3 4

The Queen’s closet. Queen: Enter Queen and Polonius. Polonius: He will come straight. Look you lay home to him: Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, And that your grace hath screen’d ...

Act 4

A room in the castle. King: Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. King: There’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves: You must translate: ’tis fit we understand them. Where is your...

Scene 4 1

A room in the castle. King: Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. King: There’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves: You must translate: ’tis fit we understand them. Where is your...

Scene 4 2

Another room in the castle. Hamlet: Enter Hamlet. Hamlet: Safely stowed. Rosencrantz Guildenstern: Within. Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! Hamlet: But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come. Ro...

Scene 4 3

Another room in the castle. King: Enter King, attended. King: I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! Yet must not we put the strong law on him: He...

Scene 4 4

A plain in Denmark. Fortinbras: Enter Fortinbras, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching. Prince Fortinbras: Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; Tell him that, by his license, Fortinbras Craves the...

Scene 4 5

Elsinore. A room in the castle. Queen: Enter Queen, Horatio, and a Gentleman. Queen: I will not speak with her. Gentleman: She is importunate, indeed distract: Her mood will needs be pitied. Queen: Wh...

Scene 4 6

Another room in the castle. Horatio: Enter Horatio and a Servant. Horatio: What are they that would speak with me? Servant: Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you. Horatio: Let them come in....

Scene 4 7

Another room in the castle. King: Enter King and Laertes. King: Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, And you must put me in your heart for friend, Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,...

Act 5

A churchyard. Clowns: Enter two Clowns, with spades, etc. First Clown: Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation? Second Clown: I tell thee she is: and therefore ma...

Scene 5 1

A churchyard. Clowns: Enter two Clowns, with spades, etc. First Clown: Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation? Second Clown: I tell thee she is: and therefore ma...

Scene 5 2

A hall in the castle. Hamlet: Enter Hamlet and Horatio. Hamlet: So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other; You do remember all the circumstance? Horatio: Remember it, my lord? Hamlet: Sir, in...

Endnotes

In an effort to create a complete form of Hamlet, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright combined parts of Hamlet from both the Second Quarto and First Folio. This portion of dialogue originate...