Hamlet: lalala my uncle is SO GUILTY, we’ve GOT him! (3.2.273-287) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET         For thou dost know, O Damon dear, This realm dismantled was Of Jove himself, and now reigns here A very, very pajock. HORATIO        You might have rhymed. HAMLET         O good Horatio, I’ll take the Ghost’s word for a thousand pound. Didst perceive? HORATIO        Very well, my lord. HAMLET         Upon the talk of the poisoning. HORATIO        I did very well note him. […]

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Hamlet: GOTCHA! HOW good am I, Horatio?? (3.2.258-272) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

OPHELIA        The King rises. GERTUDE       How fares my lord? POLONIUS      Give o’er the play. CLAUDIUS      Give me some light, away. POLONIUS!     Lights! Lights! Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO. HAMLET          Why let the stricken deer go weep,     The hart ungalled play,     For some must watch while some must sleep.     Thus runs the world away. Would not this, sir, and a forest […]

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Lucianus the murderer: bwahahaha! Hamlet: COOL HUH?! (3.2.248-257) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

LUCIANUS      Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing, Considerate season else no creature seeing, Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, With Hecate’s ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, Thy natural magic and dire property On wholesome life usurps immediately. [Pours the poison in his ears.] HAMLET         ’A poisons him i’th’ garden for his estate. His name’s Gonzago. The story is extant and written in very […]

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Hamlet: [running commentary, obscenity]; Ophelia: give it a REST (3.2.237-247) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

Enter Lucianus. HAMLET         This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king. OPHELIA        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 […]

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Claudius: what’s this called? Hamlet: THE MOUSETRAP (3.2.223-236) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET         Madam, how like you this play? GERTUDE       The lady doth protest too much, methinks. HAMLET         O, but she’ll keep her word. CLAUDIUS      Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in’t? HAMLET         No, no, they do but jest. Poison in jest. No offence i’th’ world. CLAUDIUS      What do you call the play? HAMLET         […]

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Player King: it really is time for my nap now (3.2.210-222) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

PLAYER QUEEN         Nor earth to me give food nor heaven light, Sport and repose lock from me day and night. To desperation turn my trust and hope And anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope. Each opposite that blanks the face of joy Meet what I would have well and it destroy. Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife If once I be a widow ever I be […]

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Player King: EVERYTHING is subject to Fortune, friendship and love included (3.2.198-209) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

PLAYER KING The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, The poor advanced makes friends of enemies, And hitherto doth Love on Fortune tend, For who not needs shall never lack a friend, And who in want a hollow friend doth try Directly seasons him his enemy. But orderly to end where I begun, Our wills and fates do so contrary run […]

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Player King: nothing worldly lasts; love can change too (3.2.186-197) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

PLAYER KING Most necessary ’tis that we forget To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt. What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending doth the purpose lose. The violence of either grief or joy Their own enactures with themselves destroy. Where joy most revels grief doth most lament, Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. This world is […]

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Player King: it’s OK to change your mind, love, that’s just life (3.2.176-185) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

PLAYER QUEEN         The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. A second time I kill my husband dead When second husband kisses me in bed. PLAYER KING I do believe you think what now you speak. But what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth but poor […]

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Player King: you must remarry! Player Queen: NEVER! Hamlet: HA! (3.2.167-175) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

PLAYER KING Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too, My operant powers their functions leave to do, And thou shalt live in this fair world behind Honoured, beloved, and haply one as kind For husband shalt thou – PLAYER QUEEN         O, confound the rest! Such love must needs be treason in my breast. In second husband let me be accurst: […]

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