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On a dark winter night, a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Discovered first by a
pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghost resembles the recently deceased King Hamlet,
whose brother Claudius has inherited the throne and married the kings widow, Queen Gertrude. When
Horatio and the watchmen bring Prince Hamlet, the son of Gertrude and the dead king, to see the ghost,
it speaks to him, declaring ominously that it is indeed his fathers spirit, and that he was murdered by
none other than Claudius. Ordering Hamlet to seek revenge on the man who usurped his throne and
married his wife, the ghost disappears with the dawn.
Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his fathers death, but, because he is contemplative and
thoughtful by nature, he delays, entering into a deep melancholy and even apparent madness. Claudius
and Gertrude worry about the princes erratic behavior and attempt to discover its cause. They employ a
pair of Hamlets friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to watch him. When Polonius, the pompous
Lord Chamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia, Claudius
agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does
not seem to love Ophelia: he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that he wishes to ban
marriages.
A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet seizes upon an idea to test his uncles guilt. He
will have the players perform a scene closely resembling the sequence by which Hamlet imagines his
uncle to have murdered his father, so that if Claudius is guilty, he will surely react. When the moment of
the murder arrives in the theater, Claudius leaps up and leaves the room. Hamlet and Horatio agree that
this proves his guilt. Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but finds him praying. Since he believes that killing
Claudius while in prayer would send Claudiuss soul to heaven, Hamlet considers that it would be an
inadequate revenge and decides to wait. Claudius, now frightened of Hamlets madness and fearing for
his own safety, orders that Hamlet be sent to England at once.
Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamber Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry.
Hearing a noise from behind the tapestry, Hamlet believes the king is hiding there. He draws his sword
and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For this crime, he is immediately dispatched to England
with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. However, Claudiuss plan for Hamlet includes more than
banishment, as he has given Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed orders for the King of England
demanding that Hamlet be put to death.
In the aftermath of her fathers death, Ophelia goes mad with grief and drowns in the river. Poloniuss
son, Laertes, who has been staying in France, returns to Denmark in a rage. Claudius convinces him that
Hamlet is to blame for his fathers and sisters deaths. When Horatio and the king receive letters from
Hamlet indicating that the prince has returned to Denmark after pirates attacked his ship en route to
England, Claudius concocts a plan to use Laertes desire for revenge to secure Hamlets death. Laertes
will fence with Hamlet in innocent sport, but Claudius will poison Laertes blade so that if he draws
blood, Hamlet will die. As a backup plan, the king decides to poison a goblet, which he will give Hamlet
to drink should Hamlet score the first or second hits of the match. Hamlet returns to the vicinity of
Elsinore just as Ophelias funeral is taking place. Stricken with grief, he attacks Laertes and declares that
he had in fact always loved Ophelia. Back at the castle, he tells Horatio that he believes one must be
prepared to die, since death can come at any moment. A foolish courtier named Osric arrives on
Claudiuss orders to arrange the fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes.
The sword-fighting begins. Hamlet scores the first hit, but declines to drink from the kings proffered
goblet. Instead, Gertrude takes a drink from it and is swiftly killed by the poison. Laertes succeeds in
wounding Hamlet, though Hamlet does not die of the poison immediately. First, Laertes is cut by his
own swords blade, and, after revealing to Hamlet that Claudius is responsible for the queens death, he
dies from the blades poison. Hamlet then stabs Claudius through with the poisoned sword and forces
him to drink down the rest of the poisoned wine. Claudius dies, and Hamlet dies immediately after
achieving his revenge.
At this moment, a Norwegian prince named Fortinbras, who has led an army to Denmark and attacked
Poland earlier in the play, enters with ambassadors from England, who report that Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are dead. Fortinbras is stunned by the gruesome sight of the entire royal family lying
sprawled on the floor dead. He moves to take power of the kingdom. Horatio, fulfilling Hamlets last
request, tells him Hamlets tragic story. Fortinbras orders that Hamlet be carried away in a manner
befitting a fallen soldier.
The Original from Litrature
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare homepage | Hamlet | Entire play
ACT I
BERNARDO
Who's there?
FRANCISCO
BERNARDO
FRANCISCO
Bernardo?
BERNARDO
He.
FRANCISCO
BERNARDO
FRANCISCO
BERNARDO
Have you had quiet guard?
FRANCISCO
BERNARDO
FRANCISCO
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
FRANCISCO
MARCELLUS
FRANCISCO
Exit
MARCELLUS
Holla! Bernardo!
BERNARDO
Say,
What, is Horatio there?
HORATIO
A piece of him.
BERNARDO
MARCELLUS
BERNARDO
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
BERNARDO
HORATIO
BERNARDO
Enter Ghost
MARCELLUS
BERNARDO
MARCELLUS
BERNARDO
HORATIO
BERNARDO
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
It is offended.
BERNARDO
Exit Ghost
MARCELLUS
BERNARDO
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
'Tis strange.
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
That can I;
BERNARDO
HORATIO
Re-enter Ghost
Speak to me:
Speak to me:
Cock crows
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
BERNARDO
'Tis here!
HORATIO
'Tis here!
MARCELLUS
'Tis gone!
Exit Ghost
BERNARDO
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
MARCELLUS
Exeunt
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS,
Lords, and Attendants
KING CLAUDIUS
CORNELIUS VOLTIMAND
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
My dread lord,
KING CLAUDIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
If it be,
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
MARCELLUS
My good lord--
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
Where, my lord?
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
Saw? who?
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
MARCELLUS
HAMLET
My lord, I did;
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
We do, my lord.
HAMLET
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
Arm'd, my lord.
HAMLET
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
HAMLET
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
Pale or red?
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
Most constantly.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
Longer, longer.
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
It was, as I have seen it in his life,
A sable silver'd.
HAMLET
HORATIO
I warrant it will.
HAMLET
All
HAMLET
Exit
SCENE III. A room in Polonius' house.
LAERTES
OPHELIA
LAERTES
OPHELIA
LAERTES
Think it no more;
OPHELIA
LAERTES
O, fear me not.
Enter POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
LAERTES
LORD POLONIUS
LAERTES
OPHELIA
LAERTES
Farewell.
Exit
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
In honourable fashion.
LORD POLONIUS
Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
Exeunt
SCENE IV. The platform.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
No, it is struck.
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
Is it a custom?
HAMLET
Ay, marry, is't:
HORATIO
Enter Ghost
HAMLET
HORATIO
To you alone.
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
No, by no means.
HAMLET
HORATIO
Do not, my lord.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
It waves me still.
MARCELLUS
You shall not go, my lord.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
Exeunt
HAMLET
Ghost
Mark me.
HAMLET
I will.
Ghost
HAMLET
Ghost
HAMLET
Ghost
HAMLET
What?
Ghost
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
HAMLET
O God!
Ghost
HAMLET
Murder!
Ghost
HAMLET
Ghost
HAMLET
Ghost
To those of mine!
HAMLET
Writing
MARCELLUS HORATIO
MARCELLUS
[Within] Lord Hamlet,--
HORATIO
HAMLET
So be it!
HORATIO
HAMLET
MARCELLUS
HORATIO
HAMLET
O, wonderful!
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
MARCELLUS
Nor I, my lord.
HAMLET
How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?
HORATIO MARCELLUS
Ay, by heaven, my lord.
HAMLET
HORATIO
To tell us this.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO MARCELLUS
HAMLET
HORATIO
In faith,
My lord, not I.
MARCELLUS
HAMLET
Upon my sword.
MARCELLUS
HAMLET
Ghost
[Beneath] Swear.
HAMLET
truepenny?
Consent to swear.
HORATIO
Swear by my sword.
Ghost
[Beneath] Swear.
HAMLET
Swear by my sword.
Ghost
[Beneath] Swear.
HAMLET
Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?
HORATIO
HAMLET
Ghost
[Beneath] Swear.
HAMLET
They swear
So, gentlemen,
Exeunt
ACT II
LORD POLONIUS
I will, my lord.
LORD POLONIUS
Of his behavior.
REYNALDO
LORD POLONIUS
And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
REYNALDO
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
As gaming, my lord.
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
LORD POLONIUS
Of general assault.
REYNALDO
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
Ay, my lord,
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
and 'gentleman.'
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
My lord, I have.
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
Good my lord!
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
I shall, my lord.
LORD POLONIUS
REYNALDO
Well, my lord.
LORD POLONIUS
Farewell!
Exit REYNALDO
Enter OPHELIA
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
move
Exeunt
KING CLAUDIUS
More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Than to entreaty.
GUILDENSTERN
To be commanded.
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
GUILDENSTERN
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Ay, amen!
Enter POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
Exit POLONIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
VOLTIMAND
Giving a paper
KING CLAUDIUS
It likes us well;
LORD POLONIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LORD POLONIUS
Reads
beautified Ophelia,'--
Reads
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LORD POLONIUS
Reads
KING CLAUDIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
LORD POLONIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
So he does indeed.
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LORD POLONIUS
O, give me leave:
HAMLET
Well, God-a-mercy.
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
Not I, my lord.
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
Honest, my lord!
HAMLET
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
I have, my lord.
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Between who?
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here
that old men have grey beards, that their faces are
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Into my grave.
LORD POLONIUS
Aside
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
Fare you well, my lord.
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
ROSENCRANTZ
Exit POLONIUS
GUILDENSTERN
My honoured lord!
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
Neither, my lord.
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
Prison, my lord!
HAMLET
Denmark's a prison.
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
it is a prison.
ROSENCRANTZ
Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
I know the good king and queen have sent for you.
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'?
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not
lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
late innovation.
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
Is't possible?
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
Enter POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
'twas so indeed.
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Buz, buz!
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
What a treasure had he, my lord?
HAMLET
Why,
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Why,
First Player
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
good discretion.
First Player
Did nothing.
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
First Player
HAMLET
'The mobled queen?'
LORD POLONIUS
First Player
pronounced:
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.
HAMLET
Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less
LORD POLONIUS
Come, sirs.
HAMLET
Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the
Murder of Gonzago?
First Player
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
First Player
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him
not.
welcome to Elsinore.
ROSENCRANTZ
Good my lord!
HAMLET
Now I am alone.
For Hecuba!
Ha!
O, vengeance!
A scullion!
Exit
ACT III
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
KING CLAUDIUS
ROSENCRANTZ
GUILDENSTERN
ROSENCRANTZ
GUILDENSTERN
ROSENCRANTZ
QUEEN GERTRUDE
To any pastime?
ROSENCRANTZ
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
ROSENCRANTZ
We shall, my lord.
KING CLAUDIUS
Affront Ophelia:
QUEEN GERTRUDE
OPHELIA
LORD POLONIUS
To OPHELIA
Read on this book;
KING CLAUDIUS
O heavy burthen!
LORD POLONIUS
Enter HAMLET
HAMLET
OPHELIA
Good my lord,
How does your honour for this many a day?
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
No, not I;
OPHELIA
There, my lord.
HAMLET
OPHELIA
My lord?
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than
with honesty?
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
At home, my lord.
HAMLET
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
nunnery, go.
Exit
OPHELIA
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
KING CLAUDIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
It shall be so:
Exeunt
HAMLET
too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;
First Player
HAMLET
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of
First Player
sir.
HAMLET
Exeunt Players
How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work?
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Exit POLONIUS
ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN
We will, my lord.
Enter HORATIO
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
O, my dear lord,--
HAMLET
HORATIO
Well, my lord:
HAMLET
Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA,
ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
To POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
OPHELIA
No, my lord.
HAMLET
OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
Nothing.
OPHELIA
HAMLET
Who, I?
OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
HAMLET
Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes
show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down
upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown,
kisses it, and pours poison in the King's ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King dead, and
makes passionate action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seeming to
lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts: she seems
loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love
Exeunt
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
Enter Prologue
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
Prologue
Exit
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
As woman's love.
Player King
Player Queen
Player King
Player Queen
HAMLET
Player Queen
The instances that second marriage move
Player King
Player Queen
HAMLET
Player King
Sleeps
Player Queen
Exit
HAMLET
Madam, how like you this play?
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
Enter LUCIANUS
OPHELIA
HAMLET
OPHELIA
You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
LUCIANUS
HAMLET
OPHELIA
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
All
HAMLET
HORATIO
Half a share.
HAMLET
A whole one, I.
A very, very--pajock.
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
Your wisdom should show itself more richer to
more choler.
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
Sir, I cannot.
GUILDENSTERN
What, my lord?
HAMLET
HAMLET
admiration? Impart.
ROSENCRANTZ
go to bed.
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
How can that be, when you have the voice of the king
HAMLET
is something musty.
Re-enter Players with recorders
GUILDENSTERN
unmannerly.
HAMLET
this pipe?
GUILDENSTERN
My lord, I cannot.
HAMLET
I pray you.
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
I do beseech you.
GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
GUILDENSTERN
me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know
instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you
Enter POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
presently.
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Or like a whale?
LORD POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
Exit POLONIUS
Exit
GUILDENSTERN
ROSENCRANTZ
KING CLAUDIUS
ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN
Enter POLONIUS
LORD POLONIUS
KING CLAUDIUS
Exit POLONIUS
Enter HAMLET
HAMLET
To heaven.
No!
Exit
KING CLAUDIUS
Exit
LORD POLONIUS
Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Enter HAMLET
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LORD POLONIUS
HAMLET
[Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
LORD POLONIUS
[Behind] O, I am slain!
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Is it the king?
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
As kill a king!
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Such an act
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
O, speak to me no more;
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
No more!
HAMLET
Enter Ghost
HAMLET
Ghost
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Exit Ghost
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Ecstasy!
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Pointing to POLONIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Alack,
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
O heavy deed!
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
Exeunt
Enter HAMLET
HAMLET
Safely stowed.
ROSENCRANTZ: GUILDENSTERN:
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
Believe what?
HAMLET
That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
foolish ear.
ROSENCRANTZ
HAMLET
The body is with the king, but the king is not with
GUILDENSTERN
A thing, my lord!
HAMLET
Exeunt
SCENE III. Another room in the castle.
KING CLAUDIUS
Or not at all.
Enter ROSENCRANTZ
ROSENCRANTZ
KING CLAUDIUS
ROSENCRANTZ
KING CLAUDIUS
ROSENCRANTZ
Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord.
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
At supper.
KING CLAUDIUS
At supper! where?
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
Alas, alas!
HAMLET
king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
find him not there, seek him i' the other place
KING CLAUDIUS
To some Attendants
HAMLET
Exeunt Attendants
KING CLAUDIUS
For England.
HAMLET
For England!
KING CLAUDIUS
Ay, Hamlet.
HAMLET
Good.
KING CLAUDIUS
So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!
Exit
KING CLAUDIUS
PRINCE FORTINBRAS
Captain
PRINCE FORTINBRAS
Go softly on.
HAMLET
Captain
HAMLET
Captain
Captain
HAMLET
Captain
HAMLET
Captain
HAMLET
Captain
Exit
ROSENCRANTZ
Wilt please you go, my lord?
HAMLET
Exit
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Gentleman
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Gentleman
There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
yield them,
HORATIO
'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Exit HORATIO
OPHELIA
QUEEN GERTRUDE
OPHELIA
[Sings]
OPHELIA
Sings
QUEEN GERTRUDE
OPHELIA
Sings
QUEEN GERTRUDE
OPHELIA
[Sings]
KING CLAUDIUS
OPHELIA
Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's
KING CLAUDIUS
OPHELIA
Sings
To be your Valentine.
KING CLAUDIUS
Pretty Ophelia!
OPHELIA
Sings
KING CLAUDIUS
OPHELIA
Exit
KING CLAUDIUS
I pray you.
Exit HORATIO
A noise within
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
Gentleman
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
Noise within
LAERTES
Danes
LAERTES
Danes
We will, we will.
LAERTES
Give me my father!
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LAERTES
Of my true mother.
KING CLAUDIUS
Speak, man.
LAERTES
Where is my father?
KING CLAUDIUS
Dead.
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
Who shall stay you?
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
Good Laertes,
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
Danes
LAERTES
How now! what noise is that?
Re-enter OPHELIA
OPHELIA
[Sings]
LAERTES
OPHELIA
[Sings]
LAERTES
This nothing's more than matter.
OPHELIA
LAERTES
OPHELIA
Sings
LAERTES
OPHELIA
[Sings]
Go to thy death-bed:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan:
Exit
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
So you shall;
Exeunt
HORATIO
Servant
HORATIO
Exit Servant
Enter Sailors
First Sailor
HORATIO
First Sailor
HORATIO
they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old
dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of
thee. Farewell.
Exeunt
KING CLAUDIUS
Pursued my life.
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
KING CLAUDIUS
Messenger
KING CLAUDIUS
Exit Messenger
Reads
What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
If it be so, Laertes--
LAERTES
Ay, my lord;
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
It falls right.
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
A Norman was't?
KING CLAUDIUS
A Norman.
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
What out of this, my lord?
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
I will do't:
It may be death.
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LAERTES
Drown'd! O, where?
QUEEN GERTRUDE
To muddy death.
LAERTES
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Drown'd, drown'd.
LAERTES
Exit
KING CLAUDIUS
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. A churchyard.
First Clown
Second Clown
Christian burial.
First Clown
own defence?
Second Clown
First Clown
herself wittingly.
Second Clown
First Clown
that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
Second Clown
First Clown
Second Clown
Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been
Christian burial.
First Clown
Second Clown
Was he a gentleman?
First Clown
Second Clown
First Clown
Go to.
First Clown
Second Clown
thousand tenants.
First Clown
Second Clown
a carpenter?'
First Clown
Second Clown
First Clown
To't.
Second Clown
First Clown
stoup of liquor.
HAMLET
sings at grave-making?
HORATIO
HAMLET
First Clown
[Sings]
Throws up a skull
HAMLET
might it not?
HORATIO
It might, my lord.
HAMLET
HORATIO
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
First Clown
[Sings]
this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
First Clown
Mine, sir.
Sings
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
First Clown
you.
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
First Clown
One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
HAMLET
grave-maker?
First Clown
Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day
HAMLET
First Clown
was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
Why?
First Clown
HAMLET
First Clown
How strangely?
First Clown
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
First Clown
hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
First Clown
HAMLET
Nay, I know not.
First Clown
HAMLET
This?
First Clown
E'en that.
HAMLET
Let me see.
me one thing.
HORATIO
HAMLET
Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'
the earth?
HORATIO
E'en so.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
LAERTES
HAMLET
That is Laertes,
LAERTES
First Priest
LAERTES
No more be done:
As to peace-parted souls.
LAERTES
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Scattering flowers
LAERTES
O, treble woe
Of blue Olympus.
HAMLET
LAERTES
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet, Hamlet!
All
Gentlemen,--
HORATIO
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
O, he is mad, Laertes.
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Exit
KING CLAUDIUS
Exit HORATIO
To LAERTES
Exeunt
So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
Up from my cabin,
HORATIO
Is't possible?
HAMLET
HORATIO
I beseech you.
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
Of mighty opposites.
HORATIO
HAMLET
In further evil?
HORATIO
HAMLET
HORATIO
Enter OSRIC
OSRIC
HAMLET
HORATIO
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
OSRIC
HAMLET
northerly.
OSRIC
HAMLET
complexion.
OSRIC
HAMLET
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
Sir?
HORATIO
HAMLET
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
OSRIC
Of Laertes?
HORATIO
HAMLET
Of him, sir.
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
know himself.
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
HORATIO
I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
OSRIC
HAMLET
OSRIC
HAMLET
Yours, yours.
Exit OSRIC
HORATIO
HAMLET
Enter a Lord
Lord
HAMLET
Lord
HAMLET
In happy time.
Lord
HAMLET
Exit Lord
HORATIO
HAMLET
odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here
HORATIO
Nay, good my lord,--
HAMLET
HORATIO
fit.
HAMLET
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, & c
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
LAERTES
I am satisfied in nature,
HAMLET
I embrace it freely;
LAERTES
HAMLET
I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance
LAERTES
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.
KING CLAUDIUS
LAERTES
HAMLET
OSRIC
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
LAERTES
Come, my lord.
They play
HAMLET
One.
LAERTES
No.
HAMLET
Judgment.
OSRIC
LAERTES
Well; again.
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
They play
LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
HAMLET
Good madam!
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
QUEEN GERTRUDE
LAERTES
I do not think't.
LAERTES
HAMLET
LAERTES
They play
OSRIC
LAERTES
LAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
OSRIC
HORATIO
OSRIC
How is't, Laertes?
LAERTES
HAMLET
KING CLAUDIUS
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Dies
HAMLET
LAERTES
HAMLET
Treason! treason!
KING CLAUDIUS
HAMLET
Follow my mother.
LAERTES
He is justly served;
Dies
HAMLET
To the unsatisfied.
HORATIO
HAMLET
As thou'rt a man,
To tell my story.
OSRIC
HAMLET
O, I die, Horatio;
Dies
HORATIO
March within
PRINCE FORTINBRAS
HORATIO
PRINCE FORTINBRAS
First Ambassador
HORATIO
Truly deliver.
PRINCE FORTINBRAS
HORATIO
PRINCE FORTINBRAS
A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off