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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Claudius: this is a PR DISASTER but we might get away with it (4.1.38-45) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

CLAUDIUS      Come, Gertrude, we’ll call up our wisest friends And let them know both what we mean to do And what’s untimely done. [            ] Whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name And hit the woundless air. O come away, My soul is full of discord and dismay. (Exeunt.)     (4.1.38-45) Claudius […]

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Claudius: we’ve been too soft; Gertrude: Hamlet’s not a BAD boy (4.1.19-27) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

CLAUDIUS      But so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit, But like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone? GERTRUDE     To draw apart the body he hath killed, O’er whom – his very madness like some ore Among a mineral of metals base Shows itself pure […]

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