If he steal aught the whilst this play is playingĪnd ’scape detecting, I will pay the theft. Give him heedful note,įor I mine eyes will rivet to his face, 90Īnd, after, we will both our judgments join If his occulted guilt 85Īs Vulcan’s stithy. I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, Which I have told thee of my father’s death. One scene of it comes near the circumstance In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart,Īs I do thee.-Something too much of this. That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger 75 Hast ta’en with equal thanks and blessed are those For thou hast beenĪs one in suffering all that suffers nothing, 70 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choiceĪnd could of men distinguish, her election No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pompĪnd crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 65 To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be That no revenue hast but thy good spirits 55įor what advancement may I hope from thee 60 HORATIO Here, sweet lord, at your service. With that, he sends the players off to get ready, then tells Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern to keep them on schedule. Hamlet gives the players one last piece of advice: don't be tempted to get a cheap laugh, since the audience's laughter might drown out the important parts. POLONIUS And the Queen too, and that presently. How now, my lord, will the King hear this piece of Go make you ready.Įnter Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz. That’s villainous and shows a most pitiful ambition Question of the play be then to be considered. To laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary Laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators Them, for there be of them that will themselves Your clowns speak no more than is set down for Note that Hamlet gives directions as though he has some familiarity with acting himself. Instead, they should use their discretion to build up suspense with their actions. He'd like it to come off naturally, which means they shouldn't be too loud, or gesticulate (make gestures) too much, as bad actors often do. Hamlet, in director mode, tells the actors how he wants them to perform the play. PLAYER I hope we have reformed that indifferently Well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Journeymen had made men, and not made them Having th’ accent of Christians nor the gait ofĬhristian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted andīellowed that I have thought some of nature’s 35 Highly), not to speak it profanely, that, neither Have seen play and heard others praise (and that Of the which one must in your allowance o’erweighĪ whole theater of others. Tardy off, though it makes the unskillful laugh,Ĭannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure Own image, and the very age and body of the time 25 Nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her Now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to Of playing, whose end, both at the first and For anything so o’erdone is from the purpose Observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of 20 Word, the word to the action, with this special HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your ownĭiscretion be your tutor. Most part are capable of nothing but inexplicableĭumb shows and noise. Rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the Periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very 10 It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, Whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire andīeget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently 5įor in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, It, as many of our players do, I had as lief the It to you, trippingly on the tongue but if you mouth HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced
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