Hamlet: the thing is, GUYS, I’m not mad all the time… (2.2.306-316) #InkyCloak #SlowShakespeare

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 […]

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Hamlet: 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. […]

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Hamlet: 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 […]

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Hamlet: 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? […]

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Rosencrantz/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! […]

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Polonius: 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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