The Director's Cuts:
Act 3, Scene 2
A hall in the castle.
Enter HAMLET and Players
HAMLET and beget
a temperance that may give it smoothness.
O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious First Player s 'twere, the
mirror up to nature;
to show virtue her own feature, Now this overdone, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
O, there be
players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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First Player Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work? Will you two help to hasten them? HAMLET HORATIO To feed and clothe thee?
Why should the poor be flatter'd? or thou hast been Hast ta'en with equal thanks:
and blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man Observe mine uncle:
f his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen, And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note; For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, And after we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming.
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HORATIO KING CLAUDIUS My lord, you played once i' the university, you say? OPHELIA Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
HAMLET Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters 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 Enter Prologue
HAMLET Prologue HAMLET Player King But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory, So think thou wilt no second husband wed; |
Player Queen Player Queen HAMLET This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king. You are as good as a chorus, my lord.
HAMLET
I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying. OPHELIA You are keen, my lord, you are keen. HAMLET It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge. OPHELIA Still better, and worse. HAMLET So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer; pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come: 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'
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LUCIANUS HAMLET gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
OPHELIA QUEEN GERTRUDE HAMLET |
HORATIO GUILDENSTERN Sir, a whole history.
UILDENSTERN GUILDENSTERN I will do your mother's
commandment:
if not, your pardon and my return HAMLET or, rather, as you say, my mother:
therefore no ROSENCRANTZ O, the recorders! let me see one.
To withdraw with Will you play upon Tis as easy as lying:
govern these ventages with Look you, these are the stops. easier to be played on than a pipe?
Call me what God bless you, sir! Enter POLONIUS LORD POLONIUS Then I will come to my mother by and by.
They fool
me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by. LORD POLONIUS Leave me, friends.
Exeunt all but HAMLET Tis now the very witching time of night, Let me be cruel, not unnatural: I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;
How in my words soever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! Exit
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