The play begins: it’s been 30 years… (3.2.148-153) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

Enter [Player] King and [Player] Queen. PLAYER KING Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ orbed ground And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen About the world have times twelve thirties been Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands Unite commutual in most sacred bands.       (3.2.148-153) And now the play proper; sometimes the Player King and Player Queen bear more than a superficial resemblance […]

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Hamlet: random dodgy misogynist banter! (3.2.102-117) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET         Be the players ready? ROSENCRANTZ         Ay, my lord, they stay upon your patience. GERTRUDE    Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. HAMLET         No, good mother, here’s metal more attractive. POLONIUS      [to King]         O ho, do you mark that! HAMLET         Lady, shall I lie in your lap? OPHELIA        No, my lord. HAMLET         Do you […]

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Hamlet: did you do acting when you were my age? Polonius: I DID! YES! (3.2.88-102) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

CLAUDIUS      How fares our cousin Hamlet? HAMLET         Excellent, i’faith! Of the chameleon’s dish – I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so. CLAUDIUS      I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These words are not mine. HAMLET         No, nor mine now, my lord. [to Polonius] You played once i’th’ university, you say? POLONIUS      That […]

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Hamlet: it’s showtime! WATCH CLAUDIUS ok? Horatio: absolutely (3.2.80-87) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET                     Give him heedful note, For I mine eyes will rivet to his face And after we will both our judgements join In censure of his seeming. HORATIO                   Well, my lord If ’a steal aught the whilst this play is playing And scape detected I will pay the theft. Enter Trumpets and Kettledrums, CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA [ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]. HAMLET         [to Horatio]    They are coming […]

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Hamlet: don’t watch the play, Horatio, watch my uncle! (3.2.70-80) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET         Something too much of this: There is a play tonight before the King – One scene of it comes near the circumstance Which I have told thee of my father’s death. I prithee when thou seest that act afoot, Even with the very comment of thy soul Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech It is a damned ghost that we have seen And my imaginations are […]

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Hamlet to Horatio: you’re so damn STOIC, so TEMPERATE (3.2.61-70) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET                     For thou hast been As one in suffering all that suffers nothing – A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards Hast ta’en with equal thanks. And blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well co-meddled That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion’s slave and I will wear […]

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