HAMLET

That it should come to this!

But two months dead:

So excellent a king; so loving to my mother...

O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,

Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,

My father's brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules: within a month:

she married. It is not nor it cannot come to good:

but break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.

HORATIO

Hail to your lordship!

Two nights together had these gentlemen,

on their watch been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,

appears before them. This to me in dreadful secrecy impart they did;

And I with them the third night kept the watch; Where, as they had deliver'd, the

apparition comes.

HAMLET

I will watch to-night;

Perchance 'twill walk again.

If it assume my noble father's person,

I'll speak to it.

Hamlet starts, horatio runs in tells about the ghost, hamlet says he'll watch and they run off. Then, the
ghost enters with Hamlet stumbling behind and starts his next line.

HAMLET

Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.

I am thy father's spirit Hamlet, hear:

The serpent that did sting thy father's life, Now wears his crown.

END "SCENE" Ophelia comes running in, gives her monologue and leaves.

OPHELIA

O, my lord, I have been so affrighted!

As I was sewing in my closet,

Lord Hamlet, as if he had been loosed out of hell

To speak of horrors, took me by the wrist and held me hard; he raised a sigh so piteous and profound

As it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being: that done, he let me go:

Ophelia stands on one side of the stage and turns to face the audience and give her shpeil and then
hamlet turns and faces the audience and gives his. Then they turn to each other and have their argument
"I never loved thee"

HAMLET

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

To die? to sleep perchance to dream?

But that the dread of something after death,

puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…

Here they turn to each other and Hamlet speaks first right off the bat. At the end of Ophelia's line, she
turns and walks off,

HAMLET

I did love you once.

OPHELIA

Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.

HAMLET

You should not have believed me; I loved you not.

OPHELIA

I was the more deceived.

HORATIO

Here, sweet lord, at your service.

HAMLET

There is a play to-night before the king;

One scene of it comes near the circumstance

Which I have told thee of my father's death:

when thou seest that act, observe mine uncle:

Mine eyes will rivet to his face,

And after we will both our judgments join

In censure of his seeming.

Horatio walks off, Hamlet walks forward and 2 people play the king and the uncle behind him. So the
audience is watching what hamlet seeing and the only other character is the king sitting opposite stage
from Hamlet. Then we get this:

HAMLET

He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His

name's Gonzago:you shall see anon how the murderer

gets the love of Gonzago's wife.

The king stands abruptly and walks off, hamlet calling to him:

HAMLET

What, frighted with false fire!

Then everyone disperses but hamlet who revels in his discovery until he is summoned to his mothers
chambers.

GUILDENSTERN

The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of

spirit, hath sent me to you; She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you

go to bed.
As Hamlet goes to his mothers chambers the king comes out and gives his monologue, then begins to
pray where Hamlet finds him and makes the decision not to kill him yet.

CLAUDIOUS

O, what form of prayer

Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?

That cannot be; since I am still possess'd

Of those effects for which I did the murder,

My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. Help, angels! Make assay!

HAMLET

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;

A villain kills my father; and for that,

I, his sole son, do this same villain send

To heaven…When he is fit and season'd for his passage?

No!

His soul may be as damn'd and black

As hell, whereto it goes.

Hamlet continues on to his mothers chambers without killing claudious.

We never see the interchange between hamlet and his mother.

Shortly after hamlet goes offstage, Claudius stands, then the queen runs out in tears:

KING CLAUDIUS

What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?

QUEEN GERTRUDE

Mad as the sea and wind, in his lawless fit,

Behind the arras hearing something stir,

Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!'

And, in this brainish apprehension, kills

LAERTES

Where is my father?

KING CLAUDIUS

Dead.

From this point, the king and queen exit. Laretes paces back in forth to show time passing and says this:

LAERTES

And so have I a noble father lost;

A sister driven into desperate terms,

but my revenge will come.

I'm lost in it, but let him come;

It warms the very sickness in my heart,

That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,

'Thus didest thou.'

The queen then enters, just as he is about to leave and says:

QUEEN GERTRUDE

One woe doth tread upon another's heel,

So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes

Laretes reacts and then they both exit. END "SCENE" From here we jump to the final scene, the

End all of end alls. Hamlet and Laretes face each other and have this conversation:

HAMLET

Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:

Who does it, then? His madness:

His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,

And hurt my brother.

I am satisfied in nature,

Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most

To my revenge: but in my terms of honour

I do receive your offer'd love like love,

And will not wrong it.

HAMLET

Give us the foils. Come on.

At this point laertes and Hamlet walk center towards each other. Laertes crosses behind him as hamlet
takes center stage, the king and queen have entered into position behind hamlet forming a triangle.
Hamlet gives his last monologue sort of as the other characters explain their deaths and turn their backs
to the audience. Hamlet then dies and turns his back and Horatio has the final line of the show.

KING CLAUDIUS

It is the poison'd cup: it is too late.

LAERTES

I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

QUEEN GERTRUDE

The drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--

The drink, the drink! I am poison'd.

Dies

LAERTES

Hamlet, thou art slain;

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,

Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise

Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie,

Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:

I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.

O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.

dies

LAERTES

He is justly served;

It is a poison temper'd by himself.

dies

HAMLET

Horatio, I am dead;

If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,

tell my story.

The rest is silence.

Dies

HORATIO

Good night sweet prince:

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!