Claudius: dear England, you get to do my dirty work (4.3.56-66) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

CLAUDIUS      And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught As my great power thereof may give thee sense, Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red After the Danish sword, and thy free awe Pays homage to us, thou mayst not coldly set Our sovereign process, which imports at full By letters congruing to that effect The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England! For like […]

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Hamlet: [gets last word]; Claudius: just get him OUT of here! (4.3.48-55) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET         Farewell, dear mother. CLAUDIUS                              Thy loving father, Hamlet. HAMLET         My mother. Father and mother is man and wife. Man and wife is one flesh. So – my mother. Come, for England! (Exit.) CLAUDIUS      Follow him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard. Delay it not – I’ll have him hence tonight. Away, for everything is sealed and done That else leans […]

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Claudius: you’re going to England; Hamlet: amazing! (4.3.39-47) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

CLAUDIUS      Hamlet, this deed for thine especial safety – Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve For that which thou hast done – must send thee hence. Therefore prepare thyself: The bark is ready and the wind at help, Th’associates tend and everything is bent For England. HAMLET                     For England? CLAUDIUS                                                      Ay, Hamlet. HAMLET                                                                     Good. CLAUDIUS      So is it if thou knewst our purposes. HAMLET         I see a […]

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Claudius: you had ONE job; Rosencrantz: no, Hamlet’s just outside! (4.3.11-15) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

Enter ROSENCRANTZ [and GUILDENSTERN] and all the rest. CLAUDIUS      How now, what hath befallen? ROSENCRANTZ          Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord, We cannot get from him. CLAUDIUS                  But where is he? ROSENCRANTZ          Without, my lord, guarded, to know your pleasure. CLAUDIUS      Bring him before us. ROSENCRANTZ                      Ho! Bring in the lord!                        (4.3.11-15) How now, what hath befallen? They had ONE job […]

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Hamlet: the King is a THING; Guildenstern: what? (4.2.23-28) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

ROSENCRANTZ          My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the King. HAMLET         The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. The King is a thing. GUILDENSTERN        A thing, my lord? HAMLET         Of nothing. Bring me to him.             (Exeunt.)         (4.2.23-28) Rosencrantz tries […]

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Rosencrantz: um, where’s the body? (4.2.1-10) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

Enter Hamlet. HAMLET         Safely stowed! But soft, what noise? Who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come! [Enter Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and others] ROSENCRANTZ          What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? HAMLET         Compound it with dust, whereto ’tis kin. ROSENCRANTZ          Tell us where ’tis, that we may take it thence and bear it […]

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