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My lord.

H-He desires to speak with you.

Hamlet, come.

You are most welcome back to England.

Though yet of Bhaijan

our dear brother's death the memory be green,

and it us befits to bear our hearts in grief,

yet so far has discretion fought with nature

that we with wisest sorrow think on him

together with remembrance of ourselves.

Now, Gertrude,

our sometime sister and our queen,

will we, as it were with defeated joy,

with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage...

...take now to wife.

Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms,

which have freely gone with this affair along.

For all, our thanks.

We will hold a voice and precedent of peace

to keep her name ungored.

My good Hamlet...

...cast your mourning color off

and let your eye look like a friend on Uncle.

We grieved your sickly father while he lived.

You know it's common, my son...

...all that lives must die.

Ay, madam, it is common.

It is sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet...

...to give these mourning duties to your father.

But you must know your father lost a father.

That father lost-lost his.

And we survivors have in worthiest obligation

for some term done him obsequious sorrow.

So to persevere in obstinate condolement

is a course of...

...impious stubbornness.

It is unmanly grief.

But we pray that you think of us as of a father.

For let the world take note,

you are the most immediate to our throne.

Let not your mother lose her prayers, Hamlet.

I pray you stay with us.

I shall in all my best obey you, madam.

It is a loving and a fair reply.

Be as ourselves in England.

Come away.

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

They say an old man is twice a child.

You'll come with us tonight?

Go on, my lord.

that this too,

too sullied flesh would melt,

thaw and resolve itself into a dew.

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed her canon

against self-slaughter.

God.

God...

...how weary, stale,

flat, unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

Fie on it, fie.

It's an unweeded garden that grows to seed.

Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely,

that it should come to this?

S-So excellent a king,

that was to this Hyperion to a satyr.

So loving to my mother that you might not beteem

the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.

Heaven and earth.

Must I remember?

Why, she would hang on you

as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on.

And yet within a week?

God, a beast that wants discourse or reason

would have mourned longer.

Married with my uncle?

My father's brother?

He's no more like my father than I to Hercules.

Within a week she'll marry?

...most wicked speed,

to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets.

It is not, nor can it come to good.

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

Hamlet.

Most welcome home.

What is your affair in Elsinore?

My lord?

I came to see your father's funeral.

I pray you do not mock me.

I think it was to see my mother's wedding.

Indeed.

It follows hard upon.

Funeral-baked meats will coldly furnish forth

the marriage tables.

I'm glad to see you well.

My good lord.

I'm very glad to see you.

Something too much of this.

He was a goodly king.

He was a man.

Take him for all in all.

I shall not look upon his like again.

Your uncle?

He does make love to his employment.

I think I see my father.

Come, my lord, we stay upon your patience.

For this one and his favor, my dear sister.

Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood.

Forward, not permanent.

Sweet, not lasting.

The perfume and suppliance of a minute, no more.

No more but so?

Think it no more.

Perhaps he loves you now, but you must fear...

...his greatness weighed,

his will is not his own.

We must do your mother's commandment.

Your behavior hath struck her into amazement and admiration.

A wondrous son that can so astonish a mother.

Hamlet.

Who goes there?

Please, who goes there?

Stop there. What are you?

Papa?

Say, why is this?

Wherefore, what should I do?

Now where will you lead me?

Speak. I'll go no further.

Hear me.

I will.

My hour is almost come.

When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames must render up myself.

Speak. I am bound to hear.

So are you to revenge.

What?

I am your father's spirit.

Doomed for a certain term to walk the night...

...and for the day confined to fast in fires

till the foul crimes done in my days of nature

are burnt and purged away.

If ever you did your dear father love...

God.

...revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

Murder?

It is given out that, sleeping in my chamber,

a sickness stung me.

But know my noble son,

the sickness that did sting your father's life...

...now wears his crown.

My uncle?

Ay.

That incestuous, that adulterate beast,

with witchcraft of his wits, with traitorous gifts,

so won to him my seeming-virtuous Queen -

my kingdom!

Brief let me be.

Sleeping within my chamber,

upon my secure hour your uncle stole -

and in the porches of my ears did pour a poisoning distilment

whose effect was swift as quicksilver

in coursing through my thin and wholesome blood.

So was I damned!

If you have nature in you,

bear it not.

Adieu.

Adieu.

Remember me.

I saw him, Ophelia.

Who, my lord?

In the dead waste, middle of the night,

he comes before me, and with solemn march,

with his oppressed and fear-surprised eyes...

Saw who?

My God, the king, my father!

The king your father?

The apparition comes.

I know my father.

These hands are not more like.

But...

Where was this?

There, out in the city, where we build...

And what looked he, frowningly?

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

-Pale or red? -Yeah, most pale.

And fixed his eyes upon you?

Most constantly.

I would that I had been there.

There is a villain in our dwelling,

in our home here.

There needs no ghost, my lord,

sent from the grave to tell us this.

Why, yes, you are in the right.

My uncle...

...is the cause of all this.

And those that would go hard at him while my father lived

now pay 20, 40, 50, 100,000 apiece

for his friendship and blessing.

Day and night, but this is wondrous strange.

And as a stranger give it welcome.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Ophelia,

than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

And our imaginations are as foul as devil's houses.

Come, give me one poor request.

What is it, my lord?

Never make known what I've seen tonight.

How strange or odd I bear myself

as I perhaps hereafter shall have need

to put a reckless disposition on...

...that you, at such time,

seeing me never say that you know what I saw...

...this do swear.

Propose the oath, my lord...

Never to speak of this

that I have said,

nor to tell aught of me.

This do swear, so grace and mercy

at your most needs help you.

This very place puts toys of desperation

without more motive into every brain.

It may deprive your sovereignty of reason.

Observe my uncle.

If his corrupted guilt does not reveal itself up to me now,

it is a damned ghost that I have seen.

It draws you into madness.

Think of it.

We shall see.

We shall see.

Hamlet.

Excellent.

So one may smile and smile, and be a villain.

At least I am sure it can be so in our home.

How does my good Lord Hamlet?

Well, God-a-mercy.

Do you know me, my lord?

Excellent well.

-You are a fishmonger. -Ha!

Not I, my lord.

Then I would you were so honest a man.

Honest, my lord?

Ay, sir, to be honest, as this world goes,

is to be one man picked out of 10,000.

Do you have a daughter?

Still harping on my daughter?

Yet you knew me not at first. Said I was a fishmonger.

What do you read, my lord?

Words.

Words, words.

You should walk out of the air, my lord.

What, into my grave?

How pregnant sometimes your replies are.

A happiness that often madness hits upon.

My lord...

...shall I take my leave of you? Or...

You cannot take from me anything

that I'll not more willingly part from now.

Except my life.

No, except my life.

Except my life.

God save you, sir.

My excellent good friend.

How are you?

Happy, in that I'm not ever happy.

Lord.

But what, in faith, brings you from court today?

A truant disposition, good my lord.

I would not hear your enemy say so.

I know you are no truant, but your news is not true.

Let me question you more in particular.

Were you not sent for?

Is it your own inclining?

Is it a free visitation?

Come.

-Come, deal justly with me. -What should I say, my lord?

Nothing but to the purpose.

I know the good king and queen have called you here.

My lord, I was sent for...

...to draw you on to pleasures.

Or to gather

what it is to them unknown afflicts me thus?

That opened lies within our remedy.

You are much changed now.

Gone all these years.

So far from cheer and from your former state.

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, the earth,

seems to me a sterile promontory.

What a piece of work is a man.

How noble in reason...

...how infinite in faculties,

in form and moving, how like an angel...

...in apprehension, how like a god.

Yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Man delights not me.

Nor woman neither,

though by your smiling you seem to say so.

My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.

Why did you smile, then, when I said, "Man delights not me"?

To think, my lord, if you delight not in man,

what meager entertainment those players shall receive from you.

What players are they?

They shall play at the wedding.

The wedding.

Laertes, you are welcome in Elsinore.

But my aunt-mother and my uncle-father are deceived.

In what, my lord?

When the wind is southerly,

I know a hawk from a handsaw.

About, my brains.

-Excellent, in faith. -Thanks.

Excellent.

I saw you play me a play once.

But it was never acted. Or if it was, not above once.

For the play, I remember, pleased not the million,

it was caviar to the general.

They'll have a... a jig, this wedding?

You could for need study some dozen or 16 thoughts,

which I will set down and insert in it, could you not?

Ay, my lord.

Then we shall speak anon.

Excellent, in faith.

Now, I have seen...

...that guilty creatures sitting at a play

have, by the very cunning of the scene,

been struck so to the soul

that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions.

And murder, though it has no tongue,

will speak with most miraculous organ.

I'll have these players play something

like the murder of my father before you, Uncle.

I'll observe your looks, I'll tent you to the quick.

If you do blush...

...I know my course.

The spirit that I have seen...

...may be a devil, and the devil has power

to assume a pleasing shape.

Yes, and perhaps,

out of my weakness and my melancholy,

abuses me to damn me.

I'll have grounds more relative than this.

The play's the thing

wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

Am I a coward?

Who calls me villain?

Breaks my skull across?

Plucks me by the beard, blows it in my face,

tweaks me by the nose, gives the lie in the throat,

so deep it's in my lungs.

Who does to me this? Ha.

God.

I should take it.

For it cannot be but I am pigeon-livered

and lack gall to make oppression bitter.

Or by now I should have fatted the city's rats

with this slave's offal.

Bloody, bawdy villain.

Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

What an ass am I.

This is most brave.

I, the son of a dear father murdered,

prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell...

How does your honor for this many a day?

I humbly thank you, well.

My lord.

What is the cause of your distemper?

You are so sick of late that...

...we distrust you.

"We distrust you."

Where is your father?

Are you fair?

My lord?

-Are you honest? -What means your lordship?

That if you be fair and honest,

your honesty should have no discourse with your beauty.

Can beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Ay, truly, for the power of beauty

will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a whore...

...than the force of honesty

could translate beauty into her likeness.

I did love you once.

Indeed, my lord...

...you made me believe so.

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

I was the more deceived.

Get thee to a nunnery.

Why would you be a breeder of sinners?

I am myself indifferent honest,

if I could accuse me of such things,

it were better my mother had not borne me.

-My lord. -I am very proud.

Revengeful!

Ambitious!

Have more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts

to put them in, imagination to give them shape

and time to act them in.

What should such fellows as I do

crawling between earth and heaven? - My lord.

We are arrant fools, all.

-My lord. My lord. -Believe none of us.

-Come on, my lord. -Yeah.

If you do marry, I'll give you this plague for a dowry,

be you as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,

you shall not escape hate from me! -

If you must marry,

-marry a fool... -For shame, my lord, for shame!

...for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.

Stop him.

My lord.

Laertes, help him.

-My lord. -No!

I have heard of your paintings well enough! No.

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another!

-Hamlet. -You jig and you amble,

you lisp and you nickname God's creatures,

and you make your wantonness ignorance!

Go to! I'll no more of it. It has made me mad!

We will have no more marriage!

We will have no more marriage!

Those that are married already...

-That's enough. Stop you now. -...all but one shall live.

The rest shall keep as they are!

My lord, please.

What a noble mind is here overthrown.

To be or not to be?!

That is the question!

Whether it's nobler in a mind to suffer

the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

or to take arms against a sea of troubles...

...and by opposing, end them.

To die, to sleep...

no more.

Or by a sleep to say we end the heartache,

the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to?

It's a consummation devoutly to be wished,

to die, to sleep.

To sleep, perchance to dream.

Ay, there's the rub.

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come

when we have shuffled off this mortal coil

must give us pause.

Here's the respect that makes calamity

of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...

...the oppressor's wrong,

the proud man's insolence,

the pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

when he himself might his quiet end make with a dull dagger?

Who would burdens bear

to grunt and sweat under a weary life,

but that the dread of something after death,

the undiscovered country

from whose bourn no traveler returns,

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.

Thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied over

with the pale cast of thought

and enterprises of great pitch and moment

with this regard their currents turn awry,

and lose the name of action.

Hey!

-Hey, Hamlet, Hamlet! -Hey, Hamlet!

It's time to mark the play.

Come mark the play.

Come mark the play!

They will have the play straight.

Overstep not the modesty of nature,

for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,

whose end, both at the first and now,

was and is, to hold as it were the mirror up to nature,

to show virtue her feature,

scorn her own image,

and the very age and body of the time,

his form and pressure.

My lord, will the king see this piece of work?

And the queen, too, and that presently.

Bid your players make haste.

Bid your players make haste.

It is now time for the play!

Come mark the play!

Come here now, my dear Hamlet. Come sit by me.

No, good mother.

Where's metal more attractive?

Ooh!

Shh.

Shh.

Lady...

Ooh.

Shall I lie in your lap?

No, my lord.

Did you think I meant country matters?

I think nothing, my lord.

Well, that's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.

What is it, my lord?

No-thing!

You are merry, my lord.

Who, I?

Yes, my lord.

What can a man do but be merry?

For look you how cheerfully my mother looks!

And my father died within these two hours.

It is twice two months, my lord.

It is twice two months, my lord.

So long?

Heavens, died four months ago

and not forgotten yet?

Well, then there's hope a great man's memory

may outlive his life half a year?

Ha-ha.

He-he. Ha-ha.

Ha-ha-ha-ha.

He-he-he. He-he-he.

No.

We must begin.

Lights!

Lights!

Lights!

Drink, drink, more drink!

It likes us well.

Go to your seats.

At last we'll feast together.

Most welcome all.

My Lord Hamlet.

Would not this get me

a fellowship in a gang of players?

-Half a share. -No, a full one.

I-I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pounds.

What ghost, my lord?

Come, some music.

-The king, sir. -Ay, sir, what of him?

I-Is in his retirement marvelous distempered.

With drink, sir?

No, my lord, with anger.

Well, for me to put him to his purgation

will perhaps plunge him into more anger.

If it should please you to make me a wholesome answer.

Sir, I cannot.

-What, my lord? -Make you a wholesome answer.

-My wit's diseased. -My lord, my lord.

You once did love him.

Will you play upon this pipe?

My lord, I... cannot.

-My lord, I cannot. -I pray you.

-Believe me, I cannot. -I do beseech you.

But I know no touch of it, my lord.

It is easy as lying.

Govern these ventages with your finger and thumb,

give it breath with your mouth,

it will let forth the most eloquent music.

Look you, these are the stops.

Yes, but these I cannot command to any utterance of harmony.

What, look you now,

how unworthy a thing you make of me.

You would play upon me.

You would seem to know my stops.

You would sound me from my lowest note

to the top of my compass.

And there is much music, excellent voice,

in this little organ, yet you cannot make it speak?

God's blood.

Do you think I am easier

to be played upon than a pipe?

I will not be juggled with!

Your dreadful black complexion

I will smear with your young blood.

I'll see you dead.

To hell with allegiance.

The queen, your mother,

in most great affliction of spirit has sent me to you.

And she would see you presently.

Then I will come to my mother, by and by.

All right, I'll say so.

"By and by" is easily said.

Come, Uncle.

Doors closing.

It's now...

...for you, Father.

Doors opening.

What do you call that play?

Hamlet, you have your father much offended.

Mother, you have my father much offended.

Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.

Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.

-Have you forgot me? -No, by the gods, not so.

You are the queen. Your husband's brother's wife.

And would it were not so, you are my mother.

Well, then.

I'll set him on you that can speak.

-Come, come, come. -Claudius!

Claudius!

Sit you down.

You shall not budge.

You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see

the inmost part of you.

What will you do?

Good mother.

Good mother.

You will not murder me?

Dare you strike her!

Hamlet, no!

Hamlet!

Let him go, please!

No, no!

My God, my God!

Hamlet, no!

God! God!

No, what have you done?!

Is it the king?

God!

I took you for your better.

What a rash and bloody deed is this.

A bloody deed.

Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king

and marry with his brother.

-As kill a king? -Ay, it was my word.

What have I done

that you wag your tongue in noise so rude against me?

Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty.

See what a grace there was on Papa's brow?

That was your husband.

Look you now what follows.

This is your husband,

like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother.

Have you eyes? Ha!

Have you eyes?

You cannot call it love, for at your age,

the heyday in the blood is tame.

-Hush, Hamlet. -But to live

in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed

stewed in corruption,

honeying and making love over the nasty sty.

Sweet Hamlet, no more.

-A murderer and a villain! -Speak no more!

No, no, good mother.

Gertrude?

Shh.

Gertrude!

Let us come in!

Go forth and take the body.

-Gertrude! -Go.

Make haste, make haste.

Open the door!

-Gertrude! -Go, go.

Open the door!

Gertrude!

Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!

Lord Hamlet?

In his madness.

My son.

Hamlet, this deed,

for your special safety, which we do tender,

as we dearly grieve for that which you have done,

must send you hence.

Therefore prepare yourself.

Your associates tend and everything is bent for Delhi.

To bear all smooth and even,

this sudden sending you away must seem deliberate pause.

Diseases desperate grown

by desperate appliance are relieved,

or not at all.

Come.

Delay it not.

I'll have him hence tonight.

Then come, for Delhi.

No!

The expectation and rose of their fair state?

The observed of all observers,

and I, of ladies most deject and wretched?!

I sucked the honey of your musicked vows.

Now see that sovereign, noble reason

blasted with ecstasy!

Woe is me to have seen what I have seen,

to see what I see!

Hamlet!

Give me my father!

Give me my father!

Delhi?

My good friends...

Lay him on the earth.

A document in madness.

Go!

Play the fool nowhere but your own house!

You-you have dealt with me like thieves of mercy.

Go softly on.

Go.

Good sir, what people are these?

We are just people, sir.

But how purposed, sir, I pray you?

We try to gain that little patch of ground

that has in it no profit but the name.

To pay five pennies, five, you would not buy it.

What do you call yourselves?

Fortinbras.

How long have you lived on this land, friend?

Since Elsinore did thus cast out our people.

They did steal in the courts, all these, our homes.

You know me?

I have seen your kind out there a thousand times.

Did your bones cost no more in breeding

but to play at these games with them?

Mine ache to think on it.

Well, what base uses we will return.

How all occasions do inform against me

and spur my dull revenge.

Witness your army, of no mass or charge,

whose spirit with divine ambition puffed

exposes what is mortal and unsure

to all that fortune, death and danger dare.

Even for this eggshell.

And how stand I, then,

that has a father killed, a mother stained,

excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep?

What is a man if his chief good and his market of his time

be but to sleep and feed?

A beast.

No more, who rots on earth unused.

So whether it be bestial oblivion

or some craven scruple of

thinking too precisely on the event,

a thought which quartered...

...has but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward...

...I do not know why yet I live to say, "This thing's to do."

As I have cause and will and strength and means to do it.

Examples gross as earth exhort me.

Give me a voice.

Go, my friend, from here to the sovereign court.

Tell them that by this license, you do now have

all the rights of ownership to my fortune.

Why, what king is this?

So I to claim your homes back here do invite you.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

rough-hew them how we will.

And a man's life's no more than to say "one."

Now to Elsinore.

From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody

or be nothing worth.

Must there be no more done?

What ceremony else?

And from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring.

-The devil take your soul! -Enough!

-My sister! -Enough!

Treble woe fall ten times double on that cursed head!

God!

No.

No, stop! No!

For God's sake, stop him now!

Hamlet.

God!

God, my God.

Ophelia drowned, good Hamlet.

Drowned?

There is the willow grows beside our brook...

...she to its pendent boughs...

...a crown of weeds did seek to hang.

Long it could not be till that her garments,

heavy with their drink...

...pulled the poor wretch to her muddy death.

Alas.

Alas.

It was the poison of deep grief.

It sprung all from her father's death.

My lord?

The king, sir, desires you to use

some gentle reconcilement with Laertes.

How if I say no?

There's special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

If it be now, it's not to come.

And if it be not to come, it will be now.

If it be not now, yet it will come.

And the readiness is all.

Since no man can know the world he leaves,

what is it to leave behind?

Let be.

Come, Hamlet.

Come and take his hand from him.

Give me your pardon, sir.

I have done you wrong.

But pardon it, as you are a gentleman.

This presence knows, and you must needs have heard,

how I am punished with a sore distraction.

What I have done that might your nature,

honor and exception roughly awake,

I here proclaim was madness.

Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil

free me so far in your most generous thoughts...

...that I have shot my arrow over the house

and hurt my brother.

I...

I am satisfied in nature...

...whose motive in this case

should stir me most to my revenge.

And for this time...

...I do receive your love like love...

...and will not wrong it.

We now must drink

to Hamlet's better breath.

Here...

...to his health.

Raise up your cups.

These drinks all have a strength?

Ay, my good lord.

Then come, Laertes.

For the end.

You do but dally.

The queen embraces your good fortune, Hamlet.

Gertrude, do not drink.

I will, my lord.

I pray you pardon me.

Mother.

God. No.

Good mother.

G-Good mother.

Hamlet.

The drink envenomed?

Then, venom, to your work.

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

Never!

Uncle!

Uncle!

Villainy!

Treachery!

Now they will tell of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,

of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,

of deaths put on by cunning,

and for what cause?

Fortinbras.

They have my dying voice.

Their soldiers work for justice.

Follow my father.

I loved your father!

Let be.

So I am revenged.