Hamlet: NOW COULD I DRINK HOT BLOOD (3.2.378-382) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET         ’Tis now the very witching time of night When churchyards yawn and hell itself breaks out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood And do such business as the bitter day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. (3.2.378-382) Hamlet, alone again, and breathe… He’s as wound up as he’s ever been, and his mind is bend on violence; he’s […]

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Camels and weasels and whales, oh my! (by and by) (3.2.365-377) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

POLONIUS      My lord, the Queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET         Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS      By th’ mass and ’tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET         Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS      It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET         Or like a whale? POLONIUS      Very […]

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Guildenstern: the king is RAGING; Hamlet: oh DEAR (3.2.288-302) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. GUILDENSTERN        Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. HAMLET         Sir, a whole history. GUILDENSTERN        The King, sir – HAMLET         Ay, sir, what of him? GUILDENSTERN        – is in his retirement marvellous distempered. HAMLET         With drink, sir? GUILDENSTERN        No, my lord, with choler. HAMLET         Your wisdom should show itself more […]

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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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