A flourish GUILDENSTERN There are the players! HAMLET Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come, then! Th’appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me comply with you in this garb lest my extent to the players, which I tell you must show fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment than yours. You […]
Continue ReadingHamlet: the players less popular than they were? stranger things have happened (2.2.293-305) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
HAMLET How chances it they travel? Their residence, both in reputation and profit, was better both ways. ROSENCRANTZ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation. HAMLET Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the city? Are they so followed? ROSENCRANTZ No, indeed are they not. […]
Continue ReadingRosencrantz: the players are coming! Hamlet: OK, cool I guess (2.2.279-292) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
HAMLET Why did ye laugh then, when I said man delights not me? ROSENCRANTZ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man what Lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you; we coted them on the way and hither are they coming to offer you service. HAMLET He that plays the King shall […]
Continue ReadingWhat a piece of work is a man! (not me though, says Hamlet, I’m rubbish) (2.2.269-278) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
HAMLET What a piece of work is a man – how noble in reason; how infinite in faculties, in form and moving; how express and admirable in action; how like an angel in apprehension; how like a god; the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals. And yet to me what is this quintessence […]
Continue ReadingHamlet: I’m at rock-bottom, the world stinks (2.2.259-269) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
HAMLET I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather. I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame […]
Continue ReadingHamlet: I know you were sent for; I want to hear it from you, losers (2.2.248-258) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
ROSENCRANTZ To what end, my lord? HAMLET That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer can charge you withal, be even and direct with me whether […]
Continue ReadingHamlet to R&G: you are SO BUSTED, amateurs (2.2.238-247) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
HAMLET Beggar that I am, I am ever poor in thanks, but I thank you, and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal justly with me. Come, come, nay speak. GUILDENSTERN What should we […]
Continue ReadingHamlet: top bantz! fortune’s a whore! but, serious, why are you here? (2.2.223-236) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
GUILDENSTERN Happy, in that we are not ever happy. On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button. HAMLET Nor the soles of her shoe. ROSENCRANTZ Neither, my lord. HAMLET Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours. GUILDENSTERN Faith, her privates we. HAMLET In the secret parts of Fortune? […]
Continue ReadingRosencrantz/Guildenstern: look who’s here!! Hamlet: how you DOING?! (2.2.213-222) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord. HAMLET These tedious old fools. Enter GUILDENSTERN and ROSENCRANTZ. POLONIUS You go to seek the Lord Hamlet? There he is. ROSENCRANTZ [to Polonius] God save you, sir. [Exit Polonius.] GUILDENSTERN My honoured lord. ROSENCRANTZ My most dear lord. HAMLET My excellent good friends. How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! […]
Continue ReadingPolonius: he’s actually making some sense? reason in madness, SO unfair (2.2.202-212) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare
POLONIUS [aside] Though this be madness yet there is method in’t. — Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave. POLONIUS [aside] Indeed, that’s out of the air. How pregnant sometimes his replies are – a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously […]
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