Hamlet, King Lear

Elsinore. A room in the castle.Enter Queen, Horatio, and a Gentleman. Queen. I will not speak with her.Gentleman. She is importunate, indeed distract:Her mood will needs be pitied.Queen. What would she have?Gentleman. She speaks much of her father; says she hearsThere ’s tricks i’ the world; and hems, and beats her heart;Spurns enviously at straws; […]

A plain in Denmark.Enter Fortinbras, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching. Fortinbras. Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;Tell him that, by his license, FortinbrasCraves the conveyance of a promised marchOver his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.If that his majesty would aught with us,We shall express our duty in his eye;And let him know so.Captain.

Another room in the castle.Enter King attended. King. I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!Yet must not we put the strong law on him:He ’s loved of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their judgement, but their eyes:And where ’tis so, the offender’s

Another room in the castle.Enter Hamlet. Hamlet. Safely stowed.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!Hamlet. But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come.Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.Rosencrantz. What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?Hamlet. Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.Rosencrantz. Tell us where ’tis, that we may take

A room in the castle.Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, andGuildenstern. King. There ’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:You must translate: ’tis fit we understand them.Where is your son?Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while.[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen to-nightKing. What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?Queen. Mad as

The Queen’s closet.Enter Queen and Polonius. Polonius. He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,And that your grace hath screen’d and stood betweenMuch heat and him. I ’ll sconce me even here.Pray you, be round with him.Hamlet. [Within] Mother, mother, mother!Queen. I ’ll

A room in the castle.Enter King, Rosencrantz, andGuildenstern. King. I like him not, nor stands it safe with usTo let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;I your commission will forthwith dispatch.And he to England shall along with you:The terms of our estate may not endureHazard so near us as doth hourly growOut of his lunacies.Guildenstern.

A hall in the castle.Enter Hamlet and Players. Hamlet. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your

A room in the castle.Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia,Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. King. And can you, by no drift of circumstance,Get from him why he puts on this confusion,Grating so harshly all his days of quietWith turbulent and dangerous lunacy?Rosencrantz. He does confess he feels himself distracted;But from what cause he will by no means speak.Guildenstern.

A room in the castle.Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, Guilden-stern, and Attendants. King. Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!Moreover that we much did long to see you,The need we have to use you did provokeOur hasty sending. Something have you heardOf Hamlet’s transformation; so call it,Sith nor the exterior nor the inward manResembles that it was. What

A room in Polonius’ house.Enter Polonius and Reynaldo. Polonius. Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.Reynaldo. I will, my lord.Polonius. You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,Before you visit him, to make inquireOf his behaviour.Reynaldo. My lord, I did intend it.Polonius. Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,Inquire me first what Danskers

Another part of the platform. Enter Ghost and Hamlet.Hamlet. Where wilt thou lead me? speak: I ’ll go no futher. Ghost. Mark me.Hamlet. I will.Ghost. My hour is almost come,When I to sulphurous and tormenting flamesMust render up myself.Hamlet. Alas, poor ghost!Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearingTo what I shall unfold.Hamlet. Speak;

The platform.Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus. Hamlet. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.Horatio. It is a nipping and an eager air.Hamlet. What hour now?Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.Marcellus. No, it is struck.Horatio. Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the seasonWherein the spirit held his wont to walk.[A flourish

A room in Polonius’ houseEnter Laertes and Ophelia. Laertes. My necessaries are embark’d: farewell:And, sister, as the winds give benefitAnd convoy is assistant, do not sleep,But let me hear from you.Ophelia. Do you doubt that?Laertes. For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,A violet in the youth

A room of state in the castle.Enter the King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes,Voltimand, Cornelius, Lords, and Attendants. King. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s deathThe memory be green, and that it us befittedTo bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdomTo be contracted in one brow of woe,Yet so far hath discretion fought