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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Hamlet to Horatio: love you, man (3.2.52-61) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

HAMLET                     ay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of […]

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Hamlet: nearly showtime! Horatio: how can I help? (3.2.44-52) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

Enter POLONIUS, GUILDENSTERN and ROSENCRANTZ. HAMLET         How now, my lord, will the King hear this piece of work? POLONIUS      And the Queen too, and that presently. HAMLET         Bid the players make haste. [Exit POLONIUS.]       Will you two help to hasten them? ROSENCRANTZ          Ay, my lord. Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. HAMLET         What ho, Horatio! Enter HORATIO. HORATIO        Here, sweet lord, […]

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Claudius: a holiday will do Hamlet good! Polonius: you’re still here are you, Ophelia? (3.1.170-179) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

CLAUDIUS      Haply the seas and countries different With variable objects shall expel This something-settled matter in his heart Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus From fashion of himself. What think you on’t? POLONIUS      It shall do well. But yet do I believe The origin and commencement of his grief Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia? You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said […]

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