Laurence Olivier's Hamlet was made four years after his rousingly patriotic Henry V (1944), and is a very different proposition. Unsurprisingly, given the tone and content of the play, the overall mood is that of brooding introspection - tellingly, in a phrase not in Shakespeare's original, Olivier opens by telling us that it is "the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind", foregrounding the film's central theme, a neat metaphor for the uncertainty of the immediate postwar years.
He also largely eliminates the play's political intrigue: Fortinbras is banished, and so too are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - the three characters most indelibly associated with the world outside Elsinore. These cuts focus attention on the play's central theme: the relationship between Hamlet, his lover Ophelia, mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius.
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CAST
Hamlet - OLIVIER, Laurence
Gertrude - HERLIE, Eileen
Claudius - SYDNEY, Basil
Ophelia - SIMMONS, Jean
Polonius - AYLMER, Felix
Horatio - WOOLAND, Norman
Laertes - MORGAN, Terence
Gravedigger - HOLLOWAY, Stanley
Osric - CUSHING, Peter
Bernardo - KNIGHT, Esmond
Marcellus - QUAYLE, Anthony
First Player - WILLIAMS, Harcourt
Francisco - LAURIE, John
Sea Captain - MacGINNIS, Niall
Player King - TROUGHTON, Patrick
Player Queen - TARVER, Tony
Priest - THORNDIKE, Russell
Olivier was forty when he played the part, old by Hamlet standards, but a side-effect of this is to intensify the latent eroticism of the scenes with his mother, most notably following Polonius' murder, but also at the climax, when it's made clear that she knowingly drinks the poison to kill herself.
Stylistically, Hamlet is quite different from Henry V. Shot in high-contrast black and white, it's not quite as overtly Expressionist as, for instance, Orson Welles' Macbeth (also 1948), but it's certainly a similarly claustrophobic, stifling experience, with none of the opening-out of its predecessor, or any continuation of Olivier's explorations of the contrast between film and theatrical performance.
The following year Hamlet became not just the first British but the first non-American film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, along with Best Actor (Olivier), Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
He also largely eliminates the play's political intrigue: Fortinbras is banished, and so too are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - the three characters most indelibly associated with the world outside Elsinore. These cuts focus attention on the play's central theme: the relationship between Hamlet, his lover Ophelia, mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius.
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CAST
Hamlet - OLIVIER, Laurence
Gertrude - HERLIE, Eileen
Claudius - SYDNEY, Basil
Ophelia - SIMMONS, Jean
Polonius - AYLMER, Felix
Horatio - WOOLAND, Norman
Laertes - MORGAN, Terence
Gravedigger - HOLLOWAY, Stanley
Osric - CUSHING, Peter
Bernardo - KNIGHT, Esmond
Marcellus - QUAYLE, Anthony
First Player - WILLIAMS, Harcourt
Francisco - LAURIE, John
Sea Captain - MacGINNIS, Niall
Player King - TROUGHTON, Patrick
Player Queen - TARVER, Tony
Priest - THORNDIKE, Russell
Olivier was forty when he played the part, old by Hamlet standards, but a side-effect of this is to intensify the latent eroticism of the scenes with his mother, most notably following Polonius' murder, but also at the climax, when it's made clear that she knowingly drinks the poison to kill herself.
Stylistically, Hamlet is quite different from Henry V. Shot in high-contrast black and white, it's not quite as overtly Expressionist as, for instance, Orson Welles' Macbeth (also 1948), but it's certainly a similarly claustrophobic, stifling experience, with none of the opening-out of its predecessor, or any continuation of Olivier's explorations of the contrast between film and theatrical performance.
The following year Hamlet became not just the first British but the first non-American film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, along with Best Actor (Olivier), Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
Copyright - All rights reserved to their respective owners.
Read the unabridged plays online: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/plays
_______________________________
Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
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00:00:00You
00:00:30Oh
00:01:00Oh
00:01:30Oh
00:02:00So often chances in particular men
00:02:04That through some vicious mole of nature in them
00:02:08by the o'er growth of some complexion
00:02:12Off to breaking down the pails and faults of reason
00:02:16Or by some habit grown too much
00:02:20that these men
00:02:22Carrying I say the stamp of one defect
00:02:26Their virtues else be they as pure as grace
00:02:30Shall in the general censure take corruption from that particular fault
00:02:40This is the tragedy of a man
00:02:45Who could not make up his mind
00:02:55Oh
00:03:25Oh
00:03:34Who's that hey answer me stand and unfold yourself
00:03:38Long live the King
00:03:41Bernardo
00:03:42He you come most carefully upon your own
00:03:47Now struck 12
00:03:49Get you to bed Francisco this relief much. Thanks
00:03:54Is bitter cold
00:03:59I'm sick at heart
00:04:02Have you had quiet God
00:04:05On a mouse study. Well, good night
00:04:09If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus the rivals of my watch bid them make haste I think I hear him
00:04:16And
00:04:18Oh, who's that?
00:04:20Fence this down and lead them into the day. Give me a good night
00:04:24Farewell, I soldier boys relieved you
00:04:29Hello Bernardo say what is Horatio that a piece of him welcome Horatio
00:04:37Welcome good Marcellus
00:04:40Oh
00:04:42As this thing appeared again tonight
00:04:45I've seen nothing
00:04:47Horatio says it is but our fantasy and will not let belief take hold of him touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us
00:04:55Therefore I've entreated him along with us to watch the minutes of this night
00:04:58But if again this apparition comes he may approve our eyes and speak to it. Gosh dust will not appear
00:05:07Sit down a while
00:05:09Let us once again assail your ears that are so fortified against our story
00:05:14What we two nights have seen well
00:05:17Sit we down
00:05:19Let us hear Bernardo speak of this
00:05:23Last night of all
00:05:26When you're on the same star that's westward from the pole and made his course into that part of heaven where night burns
00:05:33Marcellus and myself the bell then beating one
00:05:36peace
00:05:40Look what it comes again
00:05:45In the same figure like the dead king Hamlet no art a scholar speak to it Horatio
00:05:54Looks it not like the king mark it Horatio most like it harrows me with fear and wonder
00:06:06It will be spoke to
00:06:09Question it Horatio
00:06:11If there has any sound or use of voice speak to me
00:06:16If there be any good thing to be done that may to thee do ease and grace to me Oh speak
00:06:24You
00:06:34Stay and speak stop it Marcellus
00:06:55It is gone and will not answer
00:07:02How now Horatio tremble and look pale
00:07:05Is not this something more than fantasy?
00:07:08What think you want before my god?
00:07:10I might not disbelieve without the sensible and true about you my known eyes. Is it not like the king starred to myself?
00:07:19Strange
00:07:22It was about to speak when the cock crew
00:07:26Then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons
00:07:35I've heard a
00:07:37Cock that is the herald to the morn
00:07:40Just his lofty and shrill sounding throat awake the God of day
00:07:45Let its warning the wandering and uneasy spirit eyes to its confined
00:07:53Faded on the crowing of the cock
00:08:00Some say that ever against that season comes wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated
00:08:05The bird of dawning singeth all night long
00:08:07The bird of dawning singeth all night long
00:08:12And then they say no spirit can walk abroad
00:08:16The nights are wholesome then
00:08:20No planet strike no fairy takes nor which have part of charm
00:08:25So hallowed and so precious is the time
00:08:31So have I heard and do in part believe
00:08:35But look the morn in russet mantle clad walks or the dew of yon high eastern hill
00:08:44Break we are watch up
00:08:46And by my advice let us impart what we've seen tonight unto young Hamlet
00:08:51For upon my life this spirit dumb to us
00:08:53Will speak to him. Let's do it. I pray
00:08:57Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
00:09:34Oh
00:10:04You
00:10:34You
00:10:39Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green and that it us befitted to bear our hearts
00:10:46Grief and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow. Whoa
00:10:52Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
00:10:57That we with wisest sorrow think on him
00:11:01together with remembrance of
00:11:04ourselves
00:11:06Therefore our sometime sister now our Queen
00:11:12Have we as were with a defeated joy with mirth in funeral and with dirge in Mary in equal scale
00:11:21weighing delight and dole
00:11:24taken to wife
00:11:27Oh
00:11:29Have we herein barred your better wisdoms which have freely gone with this affair along for all
00:11:36our thanks
00:11:42Now they are teeth what's the news with you you told us of some suit what is clear it is
00:11:47You cannot speak of reason to the Dane and lose your voice
00:11:51What was that big ladies that shall not be my offer not I asking
00:11:57The head is not more native to the heart. They had more
00:12:00Instrumental to the mouth than is the throne of Denmark to thy father
00:12:07What was that have ladies
00:12:09Dread my lord your leave and favor to return to France
00:12:13From whence the willingly I came to Denmark to show my duty in your coronation
00:12:18Yet now I must confess that duty done
00:12:21My thoughts and wishes bend again towards France and bother them to your gracious leave and pardon
00:12:28Have your father's leave what says Polonius?
00:12:31He hath my lord rung from me my slow leave by laborsome petition and at last upon his will
00:12:39I sealed my hard consent. I do beseech you give him leave to go
00:12:44Take my fair early at his time divine of my best graces spend it as I will
00:12:52Now our cousin Hamlet and our son, how is it that the clouds still hang on you?
00:13:05Good Hamlet
00:13:07Cast I'd like to come along and let thine I look like a friend on Denmark
00:13:14Do not forever with thy lowered lid seek for thy noble father in the dust
00:13:20Thou know'st is common
00:13:23All that lives must die
00:13:27Passing through nature to eternity. I madam it is common
00:13:33If it be
00:13:35Why seems it so particular with me seems matter
00:13:40May it is I know not see
00:13:44It is not alone my inky cloak good mother nor customary suits of solemn black
00:13:49Together with all forms modes shows of grief that can denote me true
00:13:55These indeed seem
00:13:57For they are actions that a man might play
00:14:02But I have that within which passeth show these but the trappings and the suits of
00:14:09This sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet to give these mourning duties to your father
00:14:16But you must know your father lost the father that father lost lost his and the survivor bound in filial
00:14:23obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow
00:14:27but to persist in obstinate condolment is a course of impious stubbornness is
00:14:34unmanly grief a
00:14:35Fault to heaven a fault against dead a fault in nature to reason most
00:14:41Absurd whose common theme is death of fathers and who still has cried from the first corpse till he that died
00:14:49today
00:14:50This must be so why should we in our peevish opposition take it to heart?
00:14:58We pray you throw to earth this
00:15:02Unprevailing woe and think of us as of a father
00:15:08For let the world take note
00:15:11You are the most immediate to our throne
00:15:16With no less nobility of love than that which dearest father bears his son
00:15:21Do I impart towards you?
00:15:24Your
00:15:31Intent in going back to school at Wittenberg
00:15:33It is most retrograde to our desire and we beseech you bend you to remain here in the cheer and comfort of our eye
00:15:39Our chief is caught to your cousin and our son let not thy mother lose her prayers Hamlet. I pray thee stay with us
00:15:48Go not to Wittenberg. I
00:15:51Shall in all my best obey you
00:15:54Why does a loving and a fair reply be as ourself in Denmark?
00:16:01Madam come this gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet sits smiling to my heart
00:16:08In grace whereof no jocken health that Denmark drinks today
00:16:11But the great cannons to the clouds will tell and the King's corrals the heavens shall roar again
00:16:19re-speaking earthly thunder
00:16:21Come away
00:16:51Oh
00:17:07That this too too solid flesh wouldn't help
00:17:12Fall and resolve itself into a deal
00:17:16Or that the everlasting had not fixed his cannon against
00:17:26God
00:17:29How weary stale flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world
00:17:37Fire
00:17:41Is an unweeded garden that grows to see
00:17:44Things rank and gross in nature possess it meal
00:17:49That it should come to this
00:17:52But two months dead
00:17:55They not so much not to
00:17:59So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a Sata
00:18:05So loving to my mother that he might not suffer the winds of heaven visit her face to roughly
00:18:12Heaven and earth must I remember
00:18:15Why she would hang on him as if increase of appetite grown by what it fed on and yet within a month
00:18:22Let me not think on it
00:18:26Frailty thy name is woman a
00:18:30Little man
00:18:31Or air those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father's body like Naomi all tears
00:18:39Why she
00:18:41Even she Oh God a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer
00:18:49Married with my uncle
00:18:51My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to her kill
00:18:58Within a month
00:19:00She married
00:19:03Oh most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets
00:19:11It is not nor it cannot come to go
00:19:16But break my heart for I must hold
00:19:32Oh
00:19:52My necessaries are embarked
00:19:55Yeah, well
00:19:57And
00:19:58Sister as the winds give benefit and convoys assistant do not sleep, but let me hear from you you doubt that
00:20:14For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor
00:20:17Hold it a fashion and a toy and blood a violet in the youth of primy nature
00:20:24forward not permanent
00:20:26sweet
00:20:28Not lasting the perfume and suppliance of a minute no more
00:20:34No more, but so think it no more
00:20:39Perhaps he loves you now
00:20:41But you must fear his greatness weighed his will is not his own for he himself is subject to his birth
00:20:48He may not as unvalued persons do
00:20:51Carve for himself for on his choice depends the safety and the health of this whole state
00:21:00Then way what loss your honor may sustain if with the willing air you list his songs or lose your heart
00:21:08Or your chest treasure open to his unmastered importunity
00:21:15Be wary then
00:21:17best safety lies in fear
00:21:22You
00:21:30I shall the effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart
00:21:35But good my brother do not as some ungracious pastors do show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
00:21:43Whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance thread
00:21:47Oh
00:21:50Fear me not, but here my father comes I stay too long
00:21:56Yet here there is a board a board for shame the wind sits in the shoulder of your sail and you are stayed for
00:22:02There my blessing with him and these few precepts in thy memory look our character
00:22:09Give thy thoughts no time nor any unproportioned thought is it either familiar, but by no means vulgar
00:22:17Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel
00:22:23But do not dull thy path with entertainment of each new hatched and fledged come
00:22:29Beware of entrance to a quarter, but being in there that the opposite may beware of thee
00:22:35Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice
00:22:38Costeth I have it as I purse can buy a but not expressed in fancy rich not gaudy for the apparel of proclaims the man
00:22:47Neither a borrower nor a lender be although not loses both itself and friend and borrowing tells the age of husbandry
00:22:56This above all to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day
00:23:02How canst not then be false to any man?
00:23:06Farewell my blessing season this it be
00:23:10Most humbly do I take my leave my lord the time invites you go
00:23:15farewell, Ophelia
00:23:18And remember well what I said to you is in my memory loft and you yourself shall keep it here
00:23:35You
00:23:40What is to feel yeah, he has said to you so please you something touching the Lord Hamlet
00:23:48Mary will be thought
00:23:54What is between you give me up the truth
00:23:58He has my lord of late
00:24:00Made many tenders of his affection to me affection. Oh
00:24:04You speak like a green girl and shifted in such perilous circumstances. Do you believe his tenders as you call them?
00:24:10I do not know my lord
00:24:13What?
00:24:14Mary I will teach you think yourself a baby
00:24:21They would not in plain terms from this time forth have you give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet
00:24:30Look dude, I charge you
00:24:50Come your ways
00:25:00You
00:25:10Hail to your lordship. I'm glad to see you. Well
00:25:18For a sure I do forget myself
00:25:20Say my lord and your poor servant there sir, my good friend. I'll change that name with you
00:25:25My salad my good lord, I'm very glad to see you good even sir, but what is your affair in Elsinore?
00:25:30We'll teach you to drink deep how you depart my lord. I came to see your father's funeral. I
00:25:35Pray you do not mock me fellow student. I
00:25:38Think it was to see my mother's wedding
00:25:41Indeed my lord it followed hard upon
00:25:46Thrift thrift Horatio
00:25:51The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table
00:25:56Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day Horatio
00:26:02My father
00:26:05It thinks I see my father well
00:26:11In my mind's eye
00:26:14I saw him once
00:26:17He was a goodly King
00:26:19He was a man
00:26:22Take him for all in all I shall not look upon his life again
00:26:28My lord, I think I saw him yesterday night
00:26:34So
00:26:37Who my lord the King your father
00:26:42The King
00:26:43my
00:26:45Two nights together had these gentlemen Marcellus and Bernardo on their watch the dead fast middle of the night in us encountered
00:26:51Figure like your father armed appears before them and the solemn march goes slow and stately by them
00:26:58This to me in dread and secrecy did they impart and I with them the third night kept the watch
00:27:03Where as they had reported both in time?
00:27:06Form of the thing each word made true and good the apparition comes. I
00:27:12Knew your father
00:27:14These hands are not more like
00:27:16But where was this my lord upon the platform where we watched
00:27:20Did you not speak to it my lord I did but answer made it none
00:27:24Yet once me thought it lifted up its head as it would speak
00:27:27But even then the morning cock crew loud and at the sound it shrunk in haste away and vanished from our sight
00:27:41It is very strange I do live my long a lot is true
00:27:44And we didn't think it ripped down in our duty to let you know indeed indeed sirs
00:27:50This troubles me
00:27:53Hold you the watch tonight
00:27:55Armed say you aren't from top to toe all from head to foot then you saw not his face
00:27:59Oh, yes, my lord. You bought his visor up
00:28:09What looked he frowningly a countenance more in sorrow than in anger and fixed his eyes upon you most constantly
00:28:16I
00:28:18Would I had been there it would have much amazed you very like very nice
00:28:22Did it long while one with moderate haste might tell a hundred longer longer not when I saw
00:28:27His beard was grizzled. No, it was as I've seen it in his life a sable silver. I
00:28:35Will watch tonight perchance will walk again. I warrant it will I pray you all if you have hitherto concealed this sight and
00:28:41Whatsoever else shall have tonight give it an understanding but no tongue
00:28:45I will requite your love so fare you well upon the platform fixed 11 and 12. I visit you
00:28:49How do you love says mine to you farewell?
00:28:55My father's spirit
00:28:58In arms
00:29:00All is not well. I doubt some foul play
00:29:05With the night become
00:29:08Then sit still my soul
00:29:11Our deeds will rise so all the earth or feminine to men's eyes
00:29:41You
00:29:46Yeah, by truly it's very cold but there's a nipping and an eager
00:30:00What hour now I think it lacks of 12 no, it is struck indeed I heard it not
00:30:07Then draws near the season where in the spirit has his work to walk
00:30:32What does this mean my lord
00:30:37The
00:30:40King doth wake tonight and makes corrals
00:30:43keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels and
00:30:46As he drains his draughts of brinish down the cattle drum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge is the custom
00:30:53I had Mary
00:30:55But to my mind though I am native here into the manor born. It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observers
00:31:01This
00:31:04Heavy-headed revel the east and west makes us produced and mocked by other nations
00:31:10They call us drunkards
00:31:12And with swinish phrase soil our reputation and indeed it takes from our achievements though performed at height
00:31:31So
00:31:37After chances in particular men
00:31:39That for some vicious mole of nature in them
00:31:43by the o'er growth of some complexion of
00:31:47Breaking down the pails and thoughts of reason or by some habits grown too much
00:31:53that these men
00:31:55Carrying I say the stamp of one defect
00:31:58Their virtues else be they as pure as grace shall in the general censure take corruption
00:32:05from that particular form
00:32:27If our spirit of health or goblin damned now commenced in such a questionable shape
00:32:35That I will speak to thee. I
00:32:38call thee
00:32:40Hamlet
00:32:42King
00:32:44Father
00:32:47Royal Dane no answer me
00:32:51Royal Dane no answer me
00:32:57It beckons you to go away with it it waves you to a more moving ground, but do not go with it
00:33:01No, my lord. It will not speak
00:33:05Then I will follow it do not my lord. Why what should be the fear?
00:33:09I do not set my life at a pin's fee and for my soul. What can it do to that being a thing immortal as itself?
00:33:14It
00:33:19Waves me forth again
00:33:21I'll follow it what to attempt you toward the flood my lord
00:33:23What's the dreadful summit of the cliff that Beatles or his face into the sea and there assumed some other horrible form?
00:33:29Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness
00:33:33Think of it. You shall not go my lord of your hands
00:33:36You're old you shall not go my faith cries out and makes each petty artery in this body as hard as the Nemean lion's nerve
00:33:44Still am I called and hand be gentlemen by heaven. I'll make a ghost of him. That's into me. I say away
00:33:58Go on I'll follow thee
00:34:14I
00:34:44Will
00:34:49Whether without need me speak I call the father
00:35:00Mark me I
00:35:03Will I
00:35:07Am my father's spirit doomed for a certain time to walk the night
00:35:15And for the day confined to fast in fires
00:35:20Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
00:35:24Are burned and purged away
00:35:28Alas poor ghost
00:35:31List
00:35:33List Oh
00:35:36List
00:35:37If thou discover the idea of father love
00:35:41God
00:35:43Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder
00:35:45Murder
00:35:47Murder most foul as in the best it is
00:35:49But this most foul
00:35:51Strange
00:35:53And unnatural
00:35:55Haste me to know it
00:35:57That I with wings as swift as meditation
00:35:59Over ports of love
00:36:01Shall not depart
00:36:03From the shore
00:36:05I
00:36:07Will
00:36:09Swift as meditation over ports of love may sweep to my revenge
00:36:14Now I am let here
00:36:18It is given out that sleeping in my orchard a serpent stung me
00:36:24So the whole year of Denmark is by a forged process of my death
00:36:30frankly abused
00:36:33But know thou noble youth
00:36:36The serpent that did sting my father's life now wears his crown
00:36:46My uncle I
00:36:49That incestuous that adulterate beast
00:36:53With traitorous gifts one to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming virtuous queen
00:37:03Oh Hamlet
00:37:05What a falling off was there
00:37:08but soft
00:37:10It thinks I sent the morning air
00:37:13Brief let me be
00:37:17Sleeping within my orchard
00:37:19My custom always in the afternoon
00:37:23Upon my quiet hour thy uncle stole
00:37:27With juice of cursed hemlock in a vial
00:37:30And in the porches of my ears did pour the leprous
00:37:35distilment
00:37:36Whose effect holds such an enmity with blood of man
00:37:41That swift as quicksilver it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body
00:37:49Thus was I sleeping
00:37:51by a brother's hand
00:37:53of life of
00:37:55crown of Queen at once dispatched
00:38:00cut off
00:38:01Even in the blossoms of my sin
00:38:04No reckoning made
00:38:07But sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head
00:38:17Horrible
00:38:19Most horrible
00:38:24If thou hast nature in me bear it not
00:38:28Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest
00:38:36But howsoever thou pursuest this act
00:38:40Taint not thy mind
00:38:43Nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother ought
00:38:49Leave her to heaven
00:38:53Fare thee well at once
00:38:56The glowworm shows the maddened to be near and begins to pale his unaffectual fire
00:39:04And you
00:39:07And you
00:39:09And you
00:39:14Remember me
00:39:25Oh
00:39:43You host of heaven
00:39:49Oh
00:39:52What else
00:39:53Shall I couple hell
00:39:59Hold hold my heart
00:40:04Remember thee I thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat in this distracted glow
00:40:15Remember thee
00:40:17Yeah from the table of my memory
00:40:20I'll wipe away all trivial fund records that youth and observation copied there and thy
00:40:26Commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain
00:40:30Unmixed with baser matter. Yes
00:40:36Most pernicious
00:40:38Oh
00:40:46Smiling
00:40:49So uncle
00:40:51There you are
00:40:55Now to my work
00:40:58It is a Jew and you
00:41:02Remember me I have sworn
00:41:08Oh
00:41:13So be it
00:41:30How is my noble Lord what news my all-wonderful fellow tell it
00:41:34No
00:41:35You will reveal it
00:41:38I'll see what heart of men once think it
00:41:43But you'll be secret hi my lord, there's an air a villain dwelling in all Denmark
00:41:53But he's an errant name
00:41:59There needs no ghost my lord come from the grave to tell us this
00:42:03Why right?
00:42:05You are in the right and
00:42:07So without more circumstance at all
00:42:09I hold it fit to be shake hands and part you as your business and desire shall point you for every man have business and
00:42:14Desire such as it is and for mine own poor part. Look you I go pray
00:42:18These are but wild and whirling words my lord. I'm sorry. They offend you heartily. Yes faith heartily. There's no fits
00:42:24Yes, my son Patrick, but there is always your much offense to
00:42:27Touching this vision here. It is an honest ghost that let me tell you but your desire to know what is between us
00:42:33Or master it as you may
00:42:35And now good friends as you are friends scholars and soldiers. Give me one poor request
00:42:40What is my lord? We will never make known what you have seen tonight my lord. We will not swear it
00:42:44If it's my lord, I'm a lord in face on my sword
00:42:47It's on my lord already indeed upon my sword indeed. Oh dear night, but this is wondrous strange
00:42:52And therefore as a stranger give it welcome
00:42:54There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio than I dreamt of in your philosophy
00:42:59but come
00:43:01Never so help you mercy how strange or odd?
00:43:03So where I bear myself as I perchance hereafter shall think fit to put an antique disposition on
00:43:10That you at such time seeing me never shall by the pronouncing of some doubtful phrases
00:43:15Well, well, we know we could and if we would or such ambiguous giving out denote that you know ought of me this to swear
00:43:21So grace and mercy at your best need help you
00:43:32Rest
00:43:37Rest perturbed
00:43:44So gentlemen
00:43:46With all my life. I do commend men to you
00:43:49And what so poor a man as Hamlet is may do to express his love and friending to you. God willing shall not lack
00:43:57Go in and still your fingers on your lips, I pray
00:44:01The
00:44:04Time is out of joint Oh
00:44:11Cursed spice
00:44:14That ever I was born to set it right
00:44:18Come let's go together
00:44:31As
00:44:42I was sewing in my closet
00:44:49Lord Hamlet
00:44:52With his doublet all unlaced
00:44:56Hail as his shirt
00:44:59And with a look
00:45:01So piteous in purport
00:45:05As if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors
00:45:09He comes before me
00:45:13He took me by the wrist and held me hard
00:45:19Then goes he to the length of all his arms and with his other hand us or his brow
00:45:28He falls to such perusal of my faith
00:45:32As he would draw it
00:45:36Long stayed he so
00:45:40At last a little shaking of mine arm and thrice his head thus waving up and down
00:45:50He raised a sigh
00:45:53So piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being
00:46:03That done he let me go
00:46:08And with his head over his shoulder turned
00:46:11He seemed to find his way without his eyes
00:46:16But out of doors he went without their help and to the last
00:46:23Then did their light
00:46:26On me
00:46:43My lead and madam
00:46:46To
00:46:48Expostulate what majesty should be what duty is why days day night night and time is time were nothing but to waste
00:46:56night day and time
00:46:58therefore since brevity is the soul of wit and
00:47:02Tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. I will be brief
00:47:06Your noble son is mad
00:47:10Mad call I it for to define true madness
00:47:14What is but to be nothing else, but man more matter with less art
00:47:20Madam, I swear. I use no art at all
00:47:23That he is mad is true. It is true. It is pity and it is is true
00:47:29No foolish figure, but farewell it for I will use no art
00:47:34Thus it remains and the remainder thus
00:47:39but then I
00:47:41Have a daughter
00:47:43Have while she is mine
00:47:45Who in her duty and obedience mark hath given me this now gather and surmise
00:47:53To the celestial and my soul's idol the most beautified
00:47:59Ophelia it's an ill phrase a vile phrase
00:48:03Beautified is a vile phrase, but you shall hear thus
00:48:08In her excellent white bosom these
00:48:14Etc came this from Hamlet to her good madam. Stay a while. I will be fit
00:48:20Doubt well the stars are fire doubt that the Sun doth move
00:48:26Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love
00:48:31Oh dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans
00:48:38But that I love thee best or most best believe it
00:48:43Adieu thine evermore most dear lady while this frame is to him Hamlet
00:48:50This in obedience hath my daughter should and more above hath his solicitings as they set out by time by means and place
00:48:58all given to my dear
00:49:01But how has she received his love?
00:49:04What do you think of me as of a man?
00:49:07Faithful and honored I would feign proof
00:49:11But what might you think when I had seen this hot love on the wing if I had looked upon this love with idle sight
00:49:18What might you think?
00:49:19No, I went round to work and my young mistress thus I did this speak Lord Hamlet is a prince
00:49:27Out of thy star this must not be and then I
00:49:31Prescripts gave her that she should lock herself from his resort admit
00:49:35No messengers receive no tokens
00:49:37And he repulsed a short tale to make fell into a sentence then into a fast then to a watch then to a weakness
00:49:44Then she to a lightness and by this declension into that madness where in now he raves and all we want
00:49:53You think is this
00:49:55It may be
00:49:58Very likely
00:50:00Have there been such a time I'd say know that that I have positively said tis so that he proved otherwise
00:50:08Not that I know
00:50:10Take this from this if this be otherwise
00:50:14How may we try it further? You know, sometimes he walks for hours together here in the lobby
00:50:20So he does at such a time. I lose my daughter
00:50:25You and I behind an arrest there mark the encounter if he loved her not and be not on his reason
00:50:32Fallen thereon. Let me be no assistant for a state, but keep afar. Thank God
00:50:38We will try it
00:50:40But look where sadly the poor rich comes reading
00:50:50Away I do beseech you both away. I'll board him presently
00:50:55Oh, give me these
00:51:04How does my good Lord Henley
00:51:07Well got a message
00:51:09You know me my lord
00:51:12Excellent. Well
00:51:13You are a fishmonger. Not I might hope
00:51:17Then I would you were so honest a man
00:51:20Aye, sir
00:51:21To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of 10,000
00:51:25It's very true. My lord, or if the Sun breed maggots in a dead dog
00:51:33Your daughter I
00:51:36Have my lord let her not walk in the Sun
00:51:41Conception is a blessing but as your daughter may concede
00:51:46Friend look to it
00:51:50I
00:51:52Say you buy that still harping on my daughter yet. He knew me not at first. He said I was a fishmonger
00:51:59He's far gone
00:52:00Far gone, but I will speak to him again
00:52:03You
00:52:18What do you read my lord
00:52:21Words words words. What is the matter my lord between who I mean the matter that you read my lord
00:52:29slanders
00:52:31For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beard
00:52:35That their faces are wrinkled
00:52:37their eyes purging thick amber and plum tree gun
00:52:41That they have a plentiful lack of wit
00:52:44together with most weak hands
00:52:48All of which sir, though I most powerfully believe yet I hold it not honestly to have it thus set down
00:52:52For you yourself sir shall be old as I am if like a crab you could go backward
00:52:58And though this be madness yet does method it will you walk out of the air my lord
00:53:05Into my grave. Indeed. It is out of the air
00:53:09How pregnant sometimes his replies are my honorable Lord. I
00:53:16Will most humbly take my leave you cannot sir take from me anything, but I will more willingly part with all
00:53:24Except my life
00:53:27Except my life
00:53:57I
00:54:06Read on this book
00:54:08That sure such an exercise me color your loneliness gracious. So, please you we'll bestow ourselves
00:54:15Ophelia walk you here
00:54:27Let's withdraw my lord
00:54:57You
00:55:18Soft you know
00:55:21The fair of it
00:55:27You
00:55:57You
00:56:13Nim in thy origins be all my sins remembered good my lord
00:56:24How does your honor for this many a day
00:56:28I humbly thank you. Well
00:56:33Well, well
00:56:38My lord, I have remembrances of yours that I have longed long to redeliver. I
00:56:45Pray you now receive them
00:56:47No, not I I
00:56:50Never gave you what?
00:56:52My honored Lord, you know right? Well you did and
00:56:56With them words of so sweet breath composed it made things more rich
00:57:02Their perfume lost take these again
00:57:06For to the noble mind rich gifts wax poor and give us prove unkind
00:57:12There my lord
00:57:22Are you honest my heart
00:57:30I did love you once
00:57:34Indeed my lord you made me believe sir
00:57:40You should not have believed me
00:57:45Get thee to a nunnery
00:57:47Why would thou be a breeder of sinners? I
00:57:51Am myself in different honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better. My mother had not born me. I
00:57:58Am very proud
00:58:01Vengeful
00:58:03Ambitious
00:58:05More offenses at my back than I have thoughts to put them in
00:58:08Imagination to give them shape or time to act them in what should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth
00:58:16We are Aaron knaves all believe none of us
00:58:21Go thy ways to a nunnery
00:58:27Where's your father
00:58:30At home my lord
00:58:34Let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the fool know where but in his own house
00:58:37I
00:58:44Have heard of your paintings do well enough
00:58:46God has given you one face and you make yourselves another
00:58:48You change you amble your list you nicknamed God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance
00:58:53Get me to a nunnery and quickly to farewell
00:58:56Or if I was needs Mary Mary a fool for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them
00:59:00Don't I know more of it?
00:59:05It has made me mad
00:59:08I say we will have no more marriages those that are married already
00:59:32To another
00:59:35Go
00:59:38Oh
00:59:55Now his affections do not that way tend
00:59:58No, what he spake though. It lacked form a little was not like madness
01:00:04There's something in his soul or which he's melancholy sits on brood and
01:00:10I do fear the unheeded consequence will be some danger
01:00:15Which to prevent I have in quick determination must set it down
01:00:20He shall with speed to England
01:00:23Happily the seas and countries different with variable objects shall expel this something settled matter in his heart
01:00:30What think you want it shall do well
01:00:33But yet I do believe the origin and commencement of his grief sprung from neglected love
01:00:39How now Ophelia?
01:00:42You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said we had
01:00:48My lord do as you please it shall be so
01:00:53Madness in great ones must not unwatched go
01:01:00Oh
01:01:30Oh
01:02:00Oh
01:02:25To be or not to be
01:02:31That is the question
01:02:40Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
01:02:50Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing
01:02:56And
01:03:00Then
01:03:04To die
01:03:06To sleep no more and
01:03:09By a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to
01:03:18It is a consummation devoutly to be wished to die
01:03:26Sleep
01:03:30The chance to dream I
01:03:35There's the run
01:03:38For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil
01:03:44Must give us Paul
01:03:48There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life
01:03:52For who would bear the whips and scorns of time
01:03:58The oppressors wrong the proud man's contumely
01:04:04The pangs of despised love
01:04:10The laws delays
01:04:13the insolence of office and
01:04:16The spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes
01:04:20When he himself might his quietus make
01:04:25With a bear bodkin
01:04:29Who would fardels bear
01:04:32To grunt and sweat under a weary life
01:04:35But that the dread of something after death
01:04:40The undiscovered country from whose born no traveler return
01:04:46Puzzles the world
01:04:49And makes us rather bear those ills we have
01:04:54Then fly to others that we know not of
01:05:08Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all
01:05:12and
01:05:13Thus the native hue of resolution is sickly door with the pale cast of thought
01:05:20And
01:05:28Enterprises of great pit and moment
01:05:32With this regard their currents
01:05:36turn awry
01:05:38And
01:05:40Lose the name of
01:05:42action
01:05:49I
01:06:15Have news to tell you
01:06:20The actors have come hither my lord
01:06:28He that plays the king shall be welcome
01:06:35The best actors in the world either for tragedy comedy history
01:06:41pastoral pastoral comical historical pastoral tragical historical
01:06:46Tragical comical historical past cynic cannot be too heavy nor plotters too light for these are the only men
01:07:09You are welcome master welcome all I am glad to see thee well
01:07:16Welcome good friend. Oh
01:07:20My old friend why thy face is balanced since I saw thee last comest out to beard me in Denmark
01:07:26What my young lady and mistress?
01:07:28By a lady your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last
01:07:31Pray God your voice like a piece of uncurrent gold be not cracked in its ring
01:07:36Masters you are all welcome
01:07:39Good my lord. Will you see the players well bestowed you here?
01:07:42Let them be well used for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time
01:07:46After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live
01:07:50Oh Lord, I will use them according to their desert God's body can man much better
01:07:54Use every man after his desert and who shall escape whipping
01:07:57Use them after your own honor and dignity the less they deserve the more merit is in your bounty take them in come shows
01:08:02Follow him friends. We hear a play tomorrow
01:08:11Just hear me old friend
01:08:13Can you play the murder of Gonzaga I'm a lord we'll have it tomorrow night
01:08:20You could for a need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, but I would sit down and insert in it
01:08:25Could you I'm a lord
01:08:28Very well, follow that law and look you mock him now
01:08:43You
01:09:13You