A Taste of Shakespeare - Hamlet
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Like the other programs in the series 'A Taste of Shakespeare', the purpose of this video is to help modern audiences, especially students, identify with the universal themes in Shakespeare's plot line.
In HAMLET four actors tell the story, play some of the most famous scenes, and comment on important problems, motives, conflicts, and decisions.
Each actor plays multiple roles, each role being indicated by a simple change of costume or method of presentation. The setting is a high school auditorium, using the stage, seats, stairs and door to the outside. This technique emphasizes how little is needed in the way of props and set design to understand and enjoy a Shakespeare play.
'Some very interesting potential for classroom use. Showing the film as a preview might provide just the 'frame' some students require to more fully understand and appreciate their in-class reading of the play...' English Journal
'Simple costumes, memorable props, and effective lighting enhance the fine portrayals, which allow focused discussion of specific parts of the play or make traditional reading assignments more accessible.' Booklist
'A major virtue are the iterative questions posed by the cast as to whether or not Hamlet is mad or pretending with the implicit theme that there are no answers to the questions raised by Hamlet, the ultimate interrogative play.' Kenneth S. Roswell, University of Vermont
'Its voice on the side approach, makes the play much more accessible to those students - and there are many of them - who have a hard time getting through the complexities of language in Shakespeare to the plot and the people.' Chris M. Worsnop, English Coordinator, H.J.A Brown Education Centre
'Kudos...to the four Canadian actors who bring this simply staged...production to life... Highly recommended.' Video Librarian
'A TASTE OF SHAKESPEARE is the answer to a teacher's prayer. It serves a pressing need by introducing students to the plays of William Shakespeare in a way that makes each play accessible and compelling viewing. [Each program] maintains the language and key scenes of the play which are tied together by an intelligently crafted connecting summary. The result in each case is a thoroughly informative and entertaining overview of the key themes and motifs of each of the drama...the students' appetites for the whole play will be well wetted. Equally important, they will be able to undertake their study of the text with a clear understanding of its over-arching architecture and a real feel for its drama and language. This is unquestionably the most satisfying, authoritative and pedagogically useful video introduction to the...plays of William Shakespeare I have seen. This series is a superb achievement - a wonderful marriage of modern scholarship and media production.' Dr. John MacDonald, Professor of English Education, University of Toronto
Citation
Main credits
Craniford, Ada (creator)
Craniford, Ada (screenwriter)
Craniford, Ada (film producer)
Rotstein, Dug (film director)
Weinthal, Eric (creator)
Weinthal, Eric (screenwriter)
Weinthal, Eric (actor)
Weinthal, Eric (film producer)
Weinthal, Eric (film director)
Tree, Brian (actor)
Jacobs, Tanya (actor)
Dwyer, Karyn (actor)
Other credits
Director of photography, Alan Lennox; editor, Dave Nesbitt; music, David Hind-Smith.
Distributor subjects
English Literature; English Literature ; Guidance and Counseling; Humanities; Language Arts; Performing Arts; Theater; ValuesKeywords
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[sil.]
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[music] As goodly frame, the Earth.
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This most excellent canopy the air.
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This brave helm hanging in front of it.
This majestically roof
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fretted with golden fire. Hamlet\'s a guy
who feels and loves the beauty of nature.
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Why it appear it nothing to me but a foul
and pestilent congregation of vapors.
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Uh Oh. What a piece of work is a man? How
noble and reasonable? How infinite in
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faculties in form and moving. How expressing
admiral in action. How like an angel
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in apprehension how like a god.
Hamlet\'s a guy who\'s in ah of
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the human species. And yet to me what is this
quentists(ph) of dust. Mandalites(ph) not me
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nor women neither. How weary and stale,
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flat and unprofitable seem to me all the
uses of this world. As you can see this
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young man was not the model for the happy
face. For who would bare the whips and
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scorns of time. The pangs of
dis-prized love. The lost delayed.
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We get the point. To grunt and sweat in an
unruly way. Enough all ready. Well, how would
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you feel if father died two months
ago and your mother had already
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remarried. My Lord, I came
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to see your father\'s funeral. I
pray you do not mock me Philister.
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I think it was to see my mother\'s wedding.
Indeed, my Lord. Followed hard upon.
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked
meats did fall upon boldly furnished forth
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the marriage tables. Now that is Horatio.
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Hamlet\'s only true friend. Now Hamlet
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was being groomed to being the next to be the future
King of Denmark. But now he doesn\'t know where he stands
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because his father the king, dead. Now, all
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he knows is this: something is indeed
rotten in the state of Denmark
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because the man, his
mother married, well is.
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My father\'s brother. O\' most wicked speed.
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To post with such dexterity to
insinuates sheets. It is not,
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no it cannot come to good.
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To break my heart for I
must hold my tongue.
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[music]
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Thou yet of Hamlet our
dear brother\'s death.
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The memory be grieve and let
us befitted to bare our hearts
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in grief. And our whole
kingdom to be contradicted
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in one brow of woe. Yet so far
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had discretion that fought with
nature that we with wisest sorrow
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think on him together with
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remembrance of ourselves.
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Therefore, our sometimes sister now our
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queen. Have we
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asked where we defeated joy
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taken to wife.
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Now,
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my cousin Hamlet and my son.
More than kin and less than
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kind. Why is it the cloud still
hang on you? Not so my lord,
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I am to much in the sun. Good Hamlet,
cast thy cast thy knight color off
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and let thy eye look like
a friend on Denmark.
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Do not forever with thy vialed lids
seek for thy noble father in the dust.
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Thou most is common, all that lives must
die. Passing through nature to eternity.
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Ay madam, it is common. Think of us
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as of a father. For your intent in
going back to school in Wittenburg
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it is most retrograde to our desire.
And we besiege you, bend you
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to remain here in the cheer and comfort
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of our eye. Our chiefest cotter, cousin
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and our son.
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Let not thy mother lose her
prayers, Hamlet. I pray thee
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stay with us not go to Wittenburg.
I shall in all my best obey you,
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madam. Do you buy this son
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and cousin stuff. Neither does Hamlet.
All he knows is that Claudius,
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whom he\'s never liked much even as an uncle is now his
stepfather telling him he can\'t go back to school.
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So, what\'s Hamlet to do with
himself hanging around the court.
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Well, he\'ll have plenty to do because
he\'s father\'s ghost is in the castle
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and he appears to Hamlet. I am thy
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father\'s spirit. Doomed for
certain term to walk the night
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and for the day confined
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to vast in fires till the foul crimes done
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in my vain nature are
burned and purged away.
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List, list, list
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o\' list. If thou \'ist ever dear
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father loved. Oh God.
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Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder.
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Murder? Murder the most foul as
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is the best it is. This most foul strange
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and unnatural.
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It pains me to know it that I may
sweet to my revenge. Now Hamlet hear,
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\'tis given out that sleeping
in my orchard a serpent
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has stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark is
by a forged process of my death rankly abused.
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Then know thou noble youth,
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that the serpent that did
sting thy father\'s life
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now wears his crown. Oh, my prophetic soul,
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my uncle. If thou has nature
in thee, bare it not.
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Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch
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for luxury and damned incest.
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But thou so ever pursueist
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this act take taint not
thy mind nor let the soul
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contrive against thy mother ought,
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leave her to heaven. Adieu,
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adieu Hamlet.
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Remember me.
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Okay, Hamlet has lost his father
from murder. And his mother
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threw her marriage to an uncle he detests but he
still has his loving girlfriend Ophelia, right.
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Wrong. While Hamlet is learning the poisoning
of his father, Ophelia\'s mind is being poisoned
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by her brother Laertes just before he leaves for
France. And her father Polonius who convince
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her that Hamlet will never marry
her, is only interested in sex.
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For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor,
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hold it a fashion and toy in blood, a
violet in the youth of priming nature.
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Forward not permanent, sweet not lasting,
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the perfume and substance
of a minute no more.
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No more itself. Think it no more.
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For Lord Hamlet, leave
so much in him that he
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is young. And with a
larger tether may he walk
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then maybe even you, in, in view
Ophelia do not believe his vows.
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Yet here, Laertes abort, abort.
For shame and these
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few precepts in thy memory
look thou character
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. Give thy thoughts no
tongue, be thou familiar
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but by no means vulgar.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
For loan oft
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loses both itself and friend and
borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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This above all
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to thy own self be true.
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And it must follow as the night the day.
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Thou canst be false to anyone. He\'s
a fine one to be giving advice.
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The man spies on people any chance he gets.
But that\'s the problem
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with the advice in this play. It\'s either
given by a fool, a murder, or a ghost.
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Laertes is free to be true to himself
but Ophelia must do as she\'s told.
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Meanwhile, Hamlet has begun
to act very strangely
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since he saw the ghost and some think he\'s
gone mad. Claudius and Polonius spy on Hamlet
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to try to figure out whether
he has and what the reason is.
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To be or not to be.
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That is the question.
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Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer
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the slings and arrows of unfortune or to
take arms against a sea and by oppose them
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end them to die. To
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sleep no more. And by
asleep we say to end the
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heartache and shock that fleshes air to
the consummation devotedly to be wished.
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To die, to sleep,
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to sleep. Per chance to dream.
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Ay there\'s the rub.
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To find that sleep of death what dreams may come when we
have shuffled off this mortal coil that must give us pause.
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There\'s the respect that makes calamity
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soul on life. But who would bare
the whips and scorns of time.
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The oppressors wrong the
proud man\'s contumely,
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the pangs of dis-prized love, the lost delay
but that the dread of something after death.
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The undiscovered country where
I was born, no traveler
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returns. Puzzles the
will and makes us rather
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bare those wills we have and fly to others
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we know not of. Thous\'t conscious
makes coward of us all.
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And thus the native spew of resolution as
sickly or with a pale cast of thought.
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Soft you now,
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fair Ophelia. My Lord,
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I have remembrances of yours that I
have long at longed to redeliver.
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Pray now, receive
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them. No, not I.
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I never gave you \'awt. My honored
Lord, I know right well you did.
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With words so sweet, breath composed things
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more rich than perfume lavender.
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Take them again. For to the noble mind
which gives wax poor prove unkind.
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There my lord.
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I did love you once.
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Indeed, my lord. You made me believe so.
You should not of believed me.
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I loved you not. I was more to
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see it. Get thee to a nunnery. Why
thou be a breeder of sinners.
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I\'m myself a different honest but can accuse me of
such things that better my mother had not borne me.
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I\'m very proud, vengeful and ambitious
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with more offenses at my beck that I have
thoughts to put them in. Imagination
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to give them shape or time to act them in.
What should such fellows as I do. Crawling
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between Earth and heaven, we are
arrant naives all. Believe none of us.
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Farewell. Oh, help him, sweet heavens.
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If thou dous\'t marry, I give you this
plague for thy dowery. Be thou as chaste
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with ice and pure as snow. Thou shall not
escape calmly. Get thee to a nunnery,
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go. farewell.
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Or if thou needs marry, marry
a fool for wise men know well
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enough what monsters you make of them.
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To a nunnery go and quickly too.
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Heavenly powers restore him.
Prettier paintings
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well enough.
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Oh God have given you one face
and you make yourselves another.
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I say we\'ll have no more marriage.
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To a nunnery go.
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[music] Why does Hamlet act
this way towards Ophelia?
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Does he know Claudius and Polonius are spying
on him and he wants them to think he\'s mad.
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Does he just not believe in women anymore
since his mother speedy remarriage
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or is Hamlet just giving Ophelia
what he thinks is good advice.
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One things for sure, Hamlet isn\'t rushing
off to kill the king in a hurry and he\'s
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feeling guilty about it. A group of traveling
players arrives at Elsinore Castle.
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Watching them as they
rehearse Hamlet gets an idea.
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I have heard that guilty creatures sitting
in a play have by the cunning of the scene
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been struck so to the soul that presently they
have proclaimed their malefactions. For murder,
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though that have no tongue will
speak with most miraculous organ.
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I\'ll have these players play something like
the death of my father before mine uncle.
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I\'ll observe his looks, I\'ll tent
him to the quick. If he do blench
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I know my course. The plays the thing
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when I can catch the conscious of the king.
And the plan works. When the scene
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is played that imitates exactly how the ghost said
he was killed. Claudius gets violently agitated
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and rushes from the room. Now Hamlet
believes he has proof of Claudius\' guilt.
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He couldn\'t just take the word of a ghost
and now he can avenge his father\'s death.
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Oh, my offenses rank it smells to heaven.
It has the prime eldest
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curse upon it. A brother\'s murder!
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Pray can I not, though
inclination be a sharp
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as will my stronger guilt
defeats my strong intent.
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My fault is past
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but Oh, what form of prayer
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can serve my term.
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Forgive me my foul murder.
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It cannot be. For I\'m
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still possessed with those effects
which I did the murder. My crown,
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mine ambition, my queen.
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May one be pardoned and
detained the offense.
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Bow stubborn knees
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and heart with strings of steel
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be soft as sinews of a newborn babe.
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All maybe well.
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Now may I do it that, now he
is a prey and now I\'ll do it
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. And so he goes to heaven
and so am I revenged.
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That would be scanned, if
the one kills my father
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and for that I his soul undo
send the same villain to heaven.
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Why this is hire end salary
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not revenge. No.
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Observe and know a more horrid end.
When he is drunk asleep,
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horrendous rage, horrendous incestuous
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pleasure of his bed. Then trip him,
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that his heels may kick at heaven.
That his soul be as
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damned and black as hell.
Wait till it goes.
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[sil.] Is it really
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because Claudius is praying that Hamlet doesn\'t kill him or
does he just talk himself out of doing what he should do.
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Have you ever preferred going over,
over your plans for revenge instead
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of jut carrying them out. Or since killing
the king must be done in cold blood
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by sneaking up behind him, is it just that
Hamlet is not ready to be part of the
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of this world. The king and
queen are really upset
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at Hamlet\'s prank in having the
players present the death of a king.
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And Hamlet\'s mother sends for her son.
Polonius
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believing himself to being impartial tells the
queen he will hide and overhear the discussion.
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[sil.]
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Now mother, what\'s the matter?
Hamlet, thou hast thy father
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much offended. Mother, you have my father much
offended. Come, come. You answer with an idle tongue.
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Go, go. You answer with a wicked tongue. Why how
now, Hamlet. What\'s the matter now. Have you
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forgot me? O\' no, not by the root not so. You
are the queen. Your husband\'s brother\'s wife.
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And were it not so you are my mother.
Nay, then I\'ll say those so I can speak.
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Come, come. Sit you down.
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You shall not budge, you go not till
I set you up a glass. I see the
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inmost part of you. What will thou do? Thou will not
murder me. Help! Help! Ho! What ho! Help, help!
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Ho! Help! All right. No regret.
Dead for a ducked,
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dead. Oh, oh, I\'m slain.
Oh, leave. What has
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thou done? No not is it the king?
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Oh what a rash and bloody deed is this?
I did. Almost as bad as
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kill a king and marry with his brother.
As kill a king? Ay, lady it was my word.
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Oh, retched, ratchet, intruding fool.
Farewell. Leave ringing of your hands.
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Peace you down and let me ring your heart
for so I shall if it be made of penetrable
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stuff. What have I done that thou dare\'st
wag the tongue in noise so rude against me.
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Such an act that blurs the blush and grace
of modesty, calls virtue hypocrite,
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takes off the rose from the fare forehead of
an innocent love and sets of blister there.
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Huh, have you eyes, he was
your husband like a mildewed
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ear blasting his wholesome brother.
Have you eyes?
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You cannot call it love. For you
age faintly the blood is tame
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and humble. Waits upon the judgment. Oh,
Hamlet. Speak no more. Thou turn\'st
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mine eyes into my very soul. Nay,
but to live in the rank sweat
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of an inseminated bed,
stewed in corruption,
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and making love over the nasty star. Oh, Hamlet
speak to me no more. These words like daggers
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enter into my ears. No more, sweet Hamlet.
A murderer and a villain. A cutpurse(ph)
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of the empire and the rule. No more!
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[sil.] Mother, for he
love of grace, confess
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yourself to heaven. Repent what\'s
past, avoid what is to come.
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Do not spread the cobblestone on the
weeds to make them ranker. Oh, Hamlet,
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thou has left my heart twain.
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Throw away the worser part, leave
the pure with the other half.
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Good night,
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but go not to my uncle\'s bed.
Assume virtue if you have it not.
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When you disire\'st to be blessed.
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O\' blessing beg of you.
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Once again,
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good night. Must be cruel only to be kind.
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This bad begins only worse leaves behind.
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[sil.] Now that Hamlet\'s killed
Polonious, Ophelia will soon
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have no one. Her father dead,
her brother far away in France,
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and Hamlet who loss love to be sent away
as well. For the murder of Polonius
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makes Claudius fearful for his own life so, he
arranges for Hamlet to be sent away to England
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with a sealed letter stating Hamlet
be put to death upon arrival.
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But first, Claudius has to find
where Hamlet put Polonius\' body.
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Now Hamlet, where\'s Polonius? At supper.
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Supper? Where? Not where he
eats but where he is eaten.
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A certain congregation of politic worms are eaten
at him. The worm is your only emperor for diet.
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We fat all creatures, else to fat us.
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And we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king
and your lean beggar is but variable service,
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two dishes but to one table.
That\'s the end. At last,
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a last. A man may fish with a worm
that may eat a king, and eat of that
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fish that have feed of that worm. What
doest\'thou mean by this? Nothing.
00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
But to show you how a king may go a
progress of the guts of a beggar.
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Where\'s Polonius? If you find him not
00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.999
within this month you shall nose
him as you go up the stairs
00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.999
into the lobby.
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He will stay till you come.
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[sil.] Where is the beautie\'st
majesty of Denmark?
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How now, Ophelia? How should I true love
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
know from another one.
00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
By his cockle hat and staff
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and his sandal shoe. Alas
lady, what imports this song?
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.999
Say, nay, pray you mark.
00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.999
He is dead and gone, lady.
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.999
He is dead and gone.
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At his head a grass green turf,
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at his heels a stone. No, Ophelia.
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.999
How do you, pretty lady. Ay, good king.
They say
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we are the baker\'s daughter but we know
what we are and know not what we may be.
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God get your table.
Conceit upon her father.
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[sil.]
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Pray you. have no more words of this.
But when they ask you what it means
00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:54.999
say this: Tomorrow is Saint Valentine\'s Day
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.999
and in the morning the time and
I have made to your window
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.999
to be your Valentine.
00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:09.999
But now he robes and down his
clothes that the chamber door
00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.999
let in the maid that I had made.
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.999
Never departed more. Pretty Ophelia
00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.999
Indeed Lord. With thou
oath I make an annulment.
00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
By just send by Saint Charity
the lack and thy for shame,
00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
young men will do it if
they come to it by cock
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they are to blame. For cheat you
tumbled me, you promised me
00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
to wed. So word I have done by yonder
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
son. If thou hast not come
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
to my bed. How long has she been like this?
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.999
I hope all will be well.
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.999
Must be patient.
00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
Still I cannot choose but weep
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.999
to think they should lay him
in the cold ground. My brother
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.999
should know of it. And so I thank
you for your good counsel.
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.999
Come, my coach. Good night
lady, good night sweet ladies.
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
Good night.
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He is dead and lonely too.
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.999
He is dead and gone.
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.999
Wondering down to the brook
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.999
singing her songs, suffering flowers.
Ophelia falls into the water.
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.999
Her clothes hold her up for
awhile but finally she drowns.
00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.999
Is it an accident or
does she commit suicide?
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
Laertes, her brother
00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
returns from France, frantic to revenge
the death of his father. Only to discover
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
that Ophelia has died as well. Claudius
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
tells Laertes that Hamlet is to
blame but he is been taken care of.
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.999
Oh, oh
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.999
apparently Hamlet has not
been put to death in England.
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.999
Through a combination of
cleverness and good luck Hamlet
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.999
is quite safe and on his
way back to Denmark.
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.999
So.
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.999
Claudius persuades Laertes
to take part in a fixed
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.999
fencing match with Hamlet. In which
Laertes will kill Hamlet with
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.999
a poisoned sword. Now in
case this doesn\'t work
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.999
Claudius will also have
ready a cup of poisoned
00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.999
wine for Hamlet to drink.
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
When Hamlet gets home he discovers a grave
digger at work. Not knowing the grave
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
is for Ophelia.
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
In years when I did love did love.
We thought
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
it was very sweet. Whose grave
is this, sir? Mine, sir.
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
O\' a pit of clay for to be made for such
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.999
a guest as meat. What man
does thou dig it for? No man,
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
sir. What woman then? For then neither.
Who is to be buried in it?
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.999
One that was a woman, sir. God
rest her soul she\'s dead.
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:54.999
But age with stealing steps hath clout
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.999
me in his clutch and is
Sheppard me into the land
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.999
as if I had never been
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
such. How long has thou
been a grave digger?
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
Well, I came to it that very day that
young Hamlet was born. Ay, that is mad
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.999
and sent to England. He should recover
his wits there. Oh, if he do not
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.999
tis no great matter there. Why? Till not
be seeing him there. The men are as
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
mad as he.
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
How long will a man lay in the earth
err he rot? Five, if he be not rotten
00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
before he die. He will last you
some about eight year or nine year.
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
Your water is a sore decayer
of your horse and dead body.
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
There\'s a skull now.
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
This skull has been
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.999
in the earth three and twenty years.
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.999
Whose was it? A hoarsen mad
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.999
fellow as it was. Who do you think it was?
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.999
Ay, I know not. This same skull,
sir, was sir, Yorik\'s skull,
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.999
the kings jester. It is?
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:24.999
Wait a minute. Let me see.
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.999
Alas, poor Yorik.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.999
I knew him.
00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.999
Fellow with most infinite
jest, most excellent fancy.
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.999
He had borne me on his back a thousand
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.999
times. Now a funeral procession
enters the graveyard
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
bearing Ophelia\'s body. She
is laid in the ground and
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
her brother Laertes overcome with grief
leaps into the grave to hold his
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
sister once more. I loved Ophelia; 40,000
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
brothers could not amount of the
quantity love to make up my sum.
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
But it\'s to late for Hamlet to tell Ophelia how
much he really loved her. Hamlet and Laertes
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
fight over Ophelia\'s grave and the
stage is set for the later surfeit.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.999
But unnamed Hamlet the outcome
will be decided by poison
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.999
not swordsmanship.
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
Gertrude, do not
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
drink. I will my lord,
I pray you pardon me.
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.999
It is the poisoned cup. It is too late.
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:53.000
[sil.] The Queen dies.
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.999
In the duel both Hamlet and Laertes are cut
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.999
with the poisoned sword. Hamlet
shrugs off the scratch but
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.999
Laertes tells him that the wounds are fatal
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.999
and that the king was to blame.
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.999
With his mother and Ophelia
dead, enraged with Claudius
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.999
and having found his own reasons
as well as his father\'s command
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
Hamlet kills Claudius.
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
He stabs him with the
poison sword and forces
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.999
the rest of the poison
wine down his throat.
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:53.000
[sil.] Oh god, Horatio,
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.999
What a wounded name. Things standing
less I unknown I leave behind me.
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.999
If thou hast ever hold me in my heart.
Upset thee from velocity of awhile.
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.999
And in this harsh world draw thy breath
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
and pain to tell my story. And the rest
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
is silence.
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:33.000
[sil.] Good night sweet prince.
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
Flights of angels soon to thy rest.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:48.000
[music]
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[sil.]
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:18.000
[music]
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[sil.]