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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act I, Scene 1
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Elsinore. ... Our last king,
Whose image even but now appeard to us,
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Thereto prickd on by a most emulate pride,
Dard to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet,--
For so this side of our known world esteemd him,--
Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seald compact,
Well ratified by law and heraldry,
Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands,
Which he stood seizd of, to the conqueror:
Against the which, a moiety competent
Was gaged by our king; which had returnd
To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
Had he been vanquisher; as by the same covnant,
And carriage of the article designd,
His fell to Hamlet. ...
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks oer the dew of yon high eastward hill:
Break we our watch up: and by my advice,
Let us impart what we have seen to-night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him:
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? ...
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act I, Scene 2
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Elsinore. ...
[Enter the King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimand,
Cornelius, Lords, and Attendant. ...
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe;
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
Together with remembrance of ourselves. ... --
But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son--
Ham. ...
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. ...
Tis 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 the survivor bound,
In filial obligation, for some term
To do obsequious sorrow: but to persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness; tis unmanly grief;
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven;
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient;
An understanding simple and unschoold;
For what we know must be, and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we, in our peevish opposition,
Take it to heart? ...
Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. ... --Madam, come;
This gentle and unforcd accord of Hamlet
Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,
No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell;
And the kings rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Re-speaking earthly thunder. ...
[Exeunt all but Hamlet. ... A figure like your father,
Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
Appears before them and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walkd
By their oppressd and fear-surprised eyes,
Within his truncheons length; whilst they, distilld
Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
Stand dumb, and speak not to him. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act I, Scene 3
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood:
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting;
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more. ... Then if he says he loves you,
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
As he in his particular act and place
May give his saying deed; which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. ... Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportiond thought his act. ...
So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. ... From this time
Be something scanter of your maiden presence;
Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him, that he is young;
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,--
Not of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
The better to beguile. This is for all,--
I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
Have you so slander any moment leisure
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act I, Scene 4
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The platform.
[Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus. ... --
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damnd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comst in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: Ill call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane; O, answer me! ...
[Ghost beckons Hamlet. ...
I do not set my life at a pins fee;
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? ...
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act I, Scene 5
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[Enter Ghost and Hamlet. ... Now, Hamlet, hear. ... --won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! ...
But, howsoever thou pursust this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her. ... Hamlet, remember me. ...
My tables,--meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:
[Writing. ... ] Lord Hamlet,--
Hor. ... --So, gentlemen,
With all my love I do commend me to you:
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do, to express his love and friending to you,
God willing, shall not lack. ...
The time is out of joint:--O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right! ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 1
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbracd;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,
Ungartred, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 1
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbracd;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,
Ungartred, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 1
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbracd;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,
Ungartred, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 1
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbracd;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,
Ungartred, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 1
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbracd;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,
Ungartred, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 1
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A room in Poloniuss house. ...
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbracd;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,
Ungartred, and down-gyved to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
Tell a friend about Hamlet Enotes.
Hamlet: Act II, Scene 2
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A room in the Castle. ... --Go, some of you,
And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. ... ]
That it might please you to give quiet pass
Through your dominions for this enterprise,
On such regards of safety and allowance
As therein are set down. ...
Came this from Hamlet to her? ...
Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him,
HAMLET. ... No, I went round to work,
And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy sphere;
This must not be: and then I precepts gave her,
That she should lock herself from his resort,
Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. ... ]
[Enter Hamlet, reading.]
How does my good Lord Hamlet? ...
Slanders, sir: for the satirical slave says here that old men
have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes
purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a
plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which,
sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it
not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir,
should be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward. ...
You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. ...
I heard thee speak me a speech once,--but it was never acted;
or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleased
not the million, twas caviare to the general; but it was,--as I
received it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in
the top of mine,--an excellent play, well digested in the scenes,
set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember, one said
there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury,
nor no matter in the phrase that might indite the author of
affectation; but called it an honest method, as wholesome as
sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. ... You could, for a need, study a
speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
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Hamlet: Act III, Scene 1
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A room in the Castle. ...
Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia:
Her father and myself,--lawful espials,--
Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge;
And gather by him, as he is behavd,
Ift be the affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for. ... ]
[Enter Hamlet. ... I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse
me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me:
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my
beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give
them shape, or time to act them in. ... Theres something in his soul
Oer which his melancholy sits on brood;
And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
Will be some danger: which for to prevent,
I have in quick determination
Thus set it down:--he shall with speed to England
For the demand of our neglected tribute:
Haply the seas, and countries different,
With variable objects, shall expel
This something-settled matter in his heart;
Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
From fashion of himself. ...
You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;
We heard it all. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
Themes in Hamlet
Essay discussing the major thematic threads and significant points in the play. ...
Topics in Hamlet
Further discussion of major issues in the play, including Hamlets hesitation.
Essays on Hamlet
Several essays examining major themes and other issues in the play.
Criticism on Hamlet
Major published criticism is excerpted in this section.
Selected Quotations in Hamlet
Significant quotes from the play along with descriptions.
Bibliography of Hamlet
Recommended books for further exploration of Hamlet.
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Hamlet: Act III, Scene 2
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A hall in the Castle.
[Enter Hamlet and cartain Players. ...
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. ... And let those that play your clowns
speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them
that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren
spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary
question of the play be then to be considered: thats villanous
and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. ... --
There is a play to-night before the king;
One scene of it comes near the circumstance,
Which I have told thee, of my fathers death:
I prythee, when thou seest that act a-foot,
Even with the very comment of thy soul
Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a damned ghost that we have seen;
And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcans stithy. ...
How fares our cousin Hamlet? ...
I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not
mine. ...
Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. ...
[Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio. ... com LLC
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Hamlet: An Introduction
A summary introduction to Hamlet.
Hamlet: The Text of the Play
Read the entire text on-line. ...
Summary of Hamlet
A summary of the play, scene by scene.
The Hamlet FAQ
Common questions about Hamlet.
Critical Notes on Hamlet
A commentary with critical notes, scene by scene.
Character Analyses in Hamlet
The major and minor characters explored.
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