1 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,320 [ Narrator ] 2 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:34,660 This is the tragedy... 3 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:36,940 of a man... 4 00:02:37,020 --> 00:02:41,380 who could not make up his mind. 5 00:02:47,340 --> 00:02:50,220 [ Bell Tolling ] 6 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:26,860 - Who�s there ? - Nay, answer me ! Stand and unfold yourself. 7 00:03:28,220 --> 00:03:31,060 - Long live the king. - Bernardo ? 8 00:03:31,180 --> 00:03:34,660 -He. -You come most carefully upon your hour. 9 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:38,660 �Tis now struck 1 2:==. 10 00:03:38,740 --> 00:03:40,900 Get thee to bed, Francisco. 11 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:43,540 For this relief much thanks. 12 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:45,660 �Tis bitter cold... 13 00:03:47,820 --> 00:03:49,980 and I�m sick at heart. 14 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:53,980 Have you had quiet guard ? 15 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:57,660 - Not a mouse stirring. - Well, good night. 16 00:03:57,740 --> 00:04:00,060 If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, 17 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:03,220 the rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. 18 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:05,780 I think I hear them. 19 00:04:05,860 --> 00:04:08,740 - Stand ho ! Who�s there ? - Friends to this ground. 20 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:11,780 - And liegemen to the Dane. - Give you good night. 21 00:04:11,820 --> 00:04:13,780 Farewell, honest soldier. Who hath relieved you ? 22 00:04:13,860 --> 00:04:16,700 Bernardo hath my place. Give you good night. 23 00:04:16,780 --> 00:04:19,780 - Hello, Bernardo. - Say what ? Is Horatio there ? 24 00:04:19,820 --> 00:04:21,740 A piece of him. [ Chuckles ] 25 00:04:21,780 --> 00:04:24,260 Welcome, Horatio. 26 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,500 Welcome, good Marcellus. 27 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:31,700 What, has this thing appeared again tonight ? 28 00:04:31,820 --> 00:04:33,780 I�ve seen nothing. 29 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:36,420 Horatio says �tis but our fantasy... 30 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:39,260 and will not let belief take hold of him touching this dreaded sight... 31 00:04:39,340 --> 00:04:41,220 twice seen of us. 32 00:04:41,260 --> 00:04:44,860 Therefore, I�ve entreated him along with us to watch the minutes of this night. 33 00:04:44,940 --> 00:04:48,620 That if again this apparition comes, he may approve our eyes and speak to it. 34 00:04:48,660 --> 00:04:51,020 Tush, tush, �twill not appear. 35 00:04:53,060 --> 00:04:55,500 Sit down a while and let us once again... 36 00:04:55,580 --> 00:04:59,660 assail your ears that are so fortified against our story... 37 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:01,700 what we two nights have seen. 38 00:05:01,780 --> 00:05:04,180 Well, sit we down, 39 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:06,260 and let us hear Bernardo speak of this. 40 00:05:08,460 --> 00:05:10,980 Last night of all, 41 00:05:11,020 --> 00:05:13,900 when yon same star that�s westward from the pole... 42 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:17,340 had made his course into that part of heaven where now it burns, 43 00:05:17,420 --> 00:05:21,180 - Marcellus and myself, the bell then beating 1.:00-- - [ Indistinct Rumbling ] 44 00:05:21,260 --> 00:05:24,220 Peace, break thee off. 45 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:26,180 Look where it comes again ! 46 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:33,300 [ Bernardo ] In the same figure like the dead King Hamlet. 47 00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:37,620 Thou art a scholar. Speak to it, Horatio. 48 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:40,540 [ Bernardo ] Looks it not like the king ? 49 00:05:40,620 --> 00:05:44,340 - Mark it, Horatio. - Most like. 50 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:47,780 [ Horatio ] It harrows me with fear and wonder. 51 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:51,820 It would be spoke to. 52 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:53,740 Question it, Horatio. 53 00:05:53,820 --> 00:05:56,900 If thou hast any sound or use of voice, 54 00:05:56,980 --> 00:05:59,580 speak to me. 55 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:01,980 If there be any good thing to be done, 56 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:06,700 that may to thee do ease and grace to me, O speak ! 57 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:19,780 Stay and speak ! Stop it, Marcellus ! 58 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:22,300 - �Tis here ! - �Tis here ! 59 00:06:37,580 --> 00:06:40,420 �Tis gone, and will not answer. 60 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:46,340 How now, Horatio ? You tremble and look pale. 61 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:49,060 Is not this something more than fantasy ? 62 00:06:49,140 --> 00:06:52,100 - What think you on�t ? - Before my God, I might not this believe... 63 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:54,300 without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes. 64 00:06:54,380 --> 00:06:58,820 - Is it not like the king ? - As thou art to thyself. 65 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:01,260 �Tis strange. 66 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:06,660 It was about to speak when the cock crew. 67 00:07:06,740 --> 00:07:10,620 Then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons. 68 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:19,620 I�ve heard the cock that is the herald to the morn... 69 00:07:19,660 --> 00:07:22,340 doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat... 70 00:07:22,380 --> 00:07:24,980 awake the god of day, 71 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:30,540 and at its warning the wandering and uneasy spirit hies to its confine. 72 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:36,860 It faded on the crowing of the cock. 73 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:43,220 Some say that ever �gainst that season comes... 74 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:46,060 wherein Our Savior�s birth is celebrated, 75 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:49,460 the bird of dawning singeth all night long. 76 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:54,340 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad. 77 00:07:54,420 --> 00:07:57,740 The nights are wholesome then. 78 00:07:57,780 --> 00:08:00,300 No planets strike, no fairy takes, 79 00:08:00,380 --> 00:08:03,340 nor witch hath power to charm, 80 00:08:03,420 --> 00:08:05,900 so hallowed and so gracious is the time. 81 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:10,540 So have I heard, 82 00:08:10,580 --> 00:08:13,180 and do in part believe it. 83 00:08:13,260 --> 00:08:16,580 But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 84 00:08:16,660 --> 00:08:20,020 walks o�er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 85 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:24,100 Break we our watch up, 86 00:08:24,140 --> 00:08:26,660 and by my advice let us impart what we�ve seen tonight... 87 00:08:26,740 --> 00:08:29,620 unto young Hamlet, for upon my life, this spirit, 88 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:31,900 dumb to us, will speak to him. 89 00:08:31,980 --> 00:08:34,500 Let�s do it, I pray. 90 00:08:34,540 --> 00:08:37,220 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 91 00:09:38,820 --> 00:09:41,820 [ Crowd Chattering ] 92 00:10:11,260 --> 00:10:15,260 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother�s death the memory be green, 93 00:10:15,340 --> 00:10:18,580 and that it us befitted to bear our hearts in grief... 94 00:10:18,660 --> 00:10:23,660 and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe, 95 00:10:23,780 --> 00:10:28,500 yet so far hath discretion fought with nature... 96 00:10:28,580 --> 00:10:32,620 that we with wisest sorrow think on him... 97 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:36,620 together with remembrance of ourselves. 98 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:42,020 Therefore, our sometimes sister, now our queen, 99 00:10:43,660 --> 00:10:46,860 have we, as �twere, with a defeated joy, 100 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:50,500 with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, 101 00:10:50,540 --> 00:10:54,460 in equal scale weighing delight and dole, 102 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:56,660 taken to wife. 103 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,540 Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms, 104 00:11:01,620 --> 00:11:04,420 which have freely gone with this affair along. 105 00:11:04,460 --> 00:11:08,580 For all, our thanks. 106 00:11:12,020 --> 00:11:14,500 And now, Laertes. What�s the news with you ? 107 00:11:14,580 --> 00:11:17,180 You told us of some suit. What is�t, Laertes ? 108 00:11:17,260 --> 00:11:20,380 You cannot speak of reason to the Dane and lose your voice. 109 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:25,180 What must thou beg, Laertes, that shall not be my offer, not thy asking ? 110 00:11:25,260 --> 00:11:28,140 The head is not more native to the heart, 111 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:30,540 the head more instrumental to the mouth... 112 00:11:30,580 --> 00:11:34,420 than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. 113 00:11:36,020 --> 00:11:39,220 - What wouldst thou have, Laertes ? - Dread my lord, 114 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,060 your leave and favor to return to France, 115 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:46,620 from whence, though willingly, I came to Denmark to show my duty in your coronation. 116 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:49,660 Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, 117 00:11:49,740 --> 00:11:51,940 my thoughts and wishes bend again towards France. 118 00:11:52,020 --> 00:11:55,980 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. 119 00:11:56,060 --> 00:11:58,180 Have you your father�s leave ? What says Polonius ? 120 00:11:58,300 --> 00:12:02,540 He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave... 121 00:12:02,620 --> 00:12:04,580 by laborsome petition, 122 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:08,340 and at last, upon his will I sealed my hard consent. 123 00:12:08,420 --> 00:12:11,300 I do beseech you give him leave to go. 124 00:12:11,380 --> 00:12:14,380 Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine... 125 00:12:14,460 --> 00:12:18,820 and thy best graces spend it at thy will. 126 00:12:18,860 --> 00:12:23,300 But now, our cousin Hamlet and our son. 127 00:12:23,380 --> 00:12:25,980 How is it that the clouds still hang on you ? 128 00:12:31,180 --> 00:12:33,060 Good Hamlet, 129 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:35,980 cast thy nighted color off... 130 00:12:36,060 --> 00:12:40,020 and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. 131 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:42,100 Do not forever with thy lowered lids... 132 00:12:42,180 --> 00:12:45,980 seek for thy noble father in the dust. 133 00:12:46,060 --> 00:12:48,900 Thou knows�t �tis common. 134 00:12:48,940 --> 00:12:51,860 All that lives must die, 135 00:12:51,940 --> 00:12:54,420 passing through nature to eternity. 136 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:56,780 Aye, madam. It is common. 137 00:12:58,380 --> 00:13:00,460 If it be, 138 00:13:00,540 --> 00:13:03,220 why seems it so particular with thee ? 139 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:05,260 Seems, madam ? 140 00:13:05,380 --> 00:13:08,580 Nay, it is. I know not ��seems.�� 141 00:13:08,660 --> 00:13:11,180 �Tis not alone my inky cloak, good Mother, 142 00:13:11,260 --> 00:13:13,700 nor customary suits of solemn black... 143 00:13:13,740 --> 00:13:16,940 together with all forms, modes shows of grief... 144 00:13:17,020 --> 00:13:19,540 that can denote me truly. 145 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:21,660 These indeed seem, 146 00:13:21,740 --> 00:13:25,820 for they are actions that a man might play. 147 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:29,340 But I have that within which passeth show. 148 00:13:29,420 --> 00:13:32,980 These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 149 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:35,980 �Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, 150 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:39,780 to give these mourning duties to your father, 151 00:13:39,820 --> 00:13:42,500 but you must know your father lost a father, 152 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:46,820 that father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound in filial obligation... 153 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:50,220 for some term to do obsequious sorrow, 154 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:53,180 but to persist in obstinate condolement... 155 00:13:53,260 --> 00:13:55,260 is a course of impious stubbornness. 156 00:13:55,340 --> 00:13:57,980 �Tis unmanly grief, 157 00:13:58,060 --> 00:14:01,180 a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, 158 00:14:01,260 --> 00:14:04,340 a fault to nature, to reason most absurd, 159 00:14:04,420 --> 00:14:07,420 whose common theme is death of fathers... 160 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:11,780 and who still hath cried from the first corpse till he that died today, 161 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,740 ��This must be so.�� 162 00:14:14,860 --> 00:14:17,540 Why should we in our peevish opposition... 163 00:14:17,580 --> 00:14:19,700 take it to heart ? [ Chuckles ] 164 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:22,220 - [ Scattered Chuckling ] - We pray you throw to earth... 165 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:24,540 this unprevailing woe... 166 00:14:24,620 --> 00:14:29,220 and think of us as of a father. 167 00:14:29,260 --> 00:14:32,140 For let the world take note, 168 00:14:32,220 --> 00:14:35,980 you are the most immediate to our throne. 169 00:14:36,020 --> 00:14:38,540 - [ Courtiers Murmuring ] - And with no less nobility of love... 170 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:42,140 than that which dearest father bears his son... 171 00:14:42,220 --> 00:14:44,580 do I impart towards you. 172 00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:47,500 [ Courtiers Applauding ] 173 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:53,060 For your intent in going back to school at Wittenberg, 174 00:14:53,140 --> 00:14:55,300 it is most retrograde to our desire, 175 00:14:55,380 --> 00:14:57,260 and we beseech you, bend you to remain... 176 00:14:57,300 --> 00:14:59,780 here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, 177 00:14:59,820 --> 00:15:02,700 our chiefest courtier, cousin and our son. 178 00:15:02,740 --> 00:15:05,580 Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. 179 00:15:05,620 --> 00:15:07,580 I pray thee, stay with us. 180 00:15:07,660 --> 00:15:09,500 Go not to Wittenberg. 181 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:12,980 I shall in all my best obey you, madam. 182 00:15:13,060 --> 00:15:16,100 Why, �tis a loving and a fair reply. 183 00:15:16,180 --> 00:15:20,100 Be as ourself in Denmark. 184 00:15:20,140 --> 00:15:23,940 Madam, come. This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet... 185 00:15:23,980 --> 00:15:26,700 sits smiling to my heart. 186 00:15:26,780 --> 00:15:30,340 In grace whereof, no jocund health that Denmark drinks today... 187 00:15:30,420 --> 00:15:33,100 but the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, 188 00:15:33,180 --> 00:15:36,980 and the king�s carouse the heavens shall roar again, 189 00:15:37,060 --> 00:15:40,220 respeaking earthly thunder. 190 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:42,820 Come, away. 191 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,720 [ Thinking ] Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, 192 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,240 thaw and resolve itself into a dew. 193 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,080 Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon against self-slaughter. 194 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,600 Oh, God. God ! 195 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,520 How weary, stale flat and unprofitable... 196 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,600 seem to me all the uses of this world. 197 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,240 Fie on�t, ah, fie ! 198 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,800 �Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed. 199 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:03,560 Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely. 200 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,480 That it should come to this. 201 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,200 But two months dead. 202 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,080 Nay, not so much. Not two. 203 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:18,720 So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, 204 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,040 so loving to my mother that he might not suffer the winds of heaven... 205 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:25,000 visit her face too roughly. 206 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,160 Heaven and earth. Must I remember ? 207 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,680 Why she would hang on him as if increase of appetite... 208 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,600 had grown by what it fed on. 209 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,520 And yet, within a month-- 210 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,960 Let me not think on it. 211 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,720 Frailty, thy name is woman. 212 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,840 A little month, or ere those shoes were old, 213 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,360 with which she followed my poor father�s body-- 214 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,520 like Niobe, all tears. 215 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,920 Why, she-- Even she-- 216 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,520 Oh, God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer. 217 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,160 Marriage with my uncle. 218 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:08,120 My father�s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules. 219 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,880 Within a month, she married. 220 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:19,560 Oh, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets. 221 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,760 It is not, nor it cannot come to good. 222 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,960 But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. 223 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,680 My necessaries are embarked. 224 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,000 Farewell. 225 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,880 And sister, as the winds give benefit and convoy is assistant, 226 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,800 do not sleep, but let me hear from you. 227 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,160 Do you doubt that ? 228 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,040 For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, 229 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:28,680 hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, 230 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,440 a violet in the youth of primy nature, 231 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,920 forward, not permanent, 232 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,880 sweet, not lasting. 233 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,960 The perfume and suppliance of a minute, 234 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,680 no more. 235 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,600 - No more, but so ? - Think it no more. 236 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,600 Perhaps he loves you now, 237 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,280 but you must fear his greatness weighed, his will is not his own. 238 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,360 For he himself is subject to his birth. 239 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,840 He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself. 240 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:02,160 For on his choice depends the safety... 241 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,080 and the health of this whole state. 242 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,560 Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain... 243 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,640 if with too willing ear you list his songs... 244 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,440 or lose your heart... 245 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,120 or your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity. 246 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,800 Be wary, then. 247 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,640 Best safety lies in fear. 248 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,000 I shall the effect of this good lesson keep... 249 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,080 as watchman to my heart. 250 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,440 But, good my brother, do not as some ungracious pastors do... 251 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,240 show me the steep and thorny way to heaven... 252 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,160 whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine... 253 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,600 himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and minds not his own creed. 254 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,000 Oh, fear me not. 255 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,320 But here my father comes. I stay too long. 256 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,480 [ Polonius ] Yet here, Laertes. Aboard, aboard, for shame! 257 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,840 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail and you are stayed for. 258 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,360 There, my blessing with thee. 259 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:12,240 And these few precepts in thy memory look thou character. 260 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,720 Give thy thoughts no tongue nor any unproportioned thought his act. 261 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,760 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 262 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,960 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 263 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,840 grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, 264 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,280 but do not dull thy palm with entertainment... 265 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,280 of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. 266 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:34,280 Beware an entrance to a quarrel, but being in, 267 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:37,240 bear that the opposed may beware of thee. 268 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,640 Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. 269 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,960 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy. 270 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,520 Rich, not gaudy, for the apparel oft proclaims the man. 271 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,760 Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 272 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,360 for loan oft loses both itself and friend... 273 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,840 and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 274 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,240 This, above all: to thine own self be true, 275 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,640 and it must follow, as the night the day, 276 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,120 thou canst not then be false to any man. 277 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,280 Farewell. My blessing season this in thee. 278 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,360 Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. 279 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,640 The time invites you. Go. 280 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,320 Farewell, Ophelia. 281 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:20,240 And remember well what I said to you. 282 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,760 �Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it. 283 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,680 Farewell. 284 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,040 [ Footsteps Departing ] 285 00:22:39,380 --> 00:22:42,220 What is�t, Ophelia, he hath said to you ? 286 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:45,940 So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. 287 00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:49,340 Marry, well bethought. 288 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:56,140 What is between you ? Give me up the truth. 289 00:22:56,180 --> 00:23:00,780 He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me. 290 00:23:00,860 --> 00:23:04,060 Affection ? Pooh ! You speak like a green girl, 291 00:23:04,140 --> 00:23:06,460 unsifted in such perilous circumstance. 292 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:08,820 Do you believe his tenders, as you call them ? 293 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:12,220 I do not know, my lord, what I should think. 294 00:23:12,340 --> 00:23:14,700 Marry, I�ll teach you. Think yourself a baby. 295 00:23:18,740 --> 00:23:21,580 I would not in plain terms from this time forth... 296 00:23:21,620 --> 00:23:24,580 have you give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. 297 00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:29,780 Look to it, I charge you. 298 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,180 Come your ways. 299 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:04,540 [ Footsteps Approaching ] 300 00:24:05,620 --> 00:24:08,060 [ Horatio ] Hail to your lordship. 301 00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:10,780 I�m glad to see you well. 302 00:24:13,060 --> 00:24:15,140 Horatio, or I do forget myself. 303 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:17,420 The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. 304 00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:19,860 Sir, my good friend, I�ll change that name with you. 305 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,340 - Marcellus. - My good lord. 306 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:23,340 I�m very glad to see you. Good evening, sir. 307 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:26,540 But what is your affair in Elsinore ? We�ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. 308 00:24:26,580 --> 00:24:29,540 My lord, I came to see your father�s funeral. 309 00:24:29,620 --> 00:24:32,380 I pray you do not mock me, fellow student. 310 00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:35,260 I think it was to see my mother�s wedding. 311 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:38,380 Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon. 312 00:24:39,980 --> 00:24:42,420 Thrift. Thrift, Horatio. 313 00:24:44,660 --> 00:24:49,420 The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 314 00:24:49,540 --> 00:24:54,540 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day, Horatio. 315 00:24:56,020 --> 00:25:00,820 My father. Methinks I see my father. 316 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:03,860 Where, my lord ? 317 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:07,180 In my mind�s eye, Horatio. 318 00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:09,460 I saw him once. 319 00:25:09,540 --> 00:25:12,140 He was a goodly king. 320 00:25:12,220 --> 00:25:14,540 He was a man. 321 00:25:14,580 --> 00:25:18,220 Take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. 322 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:24,300 My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. 323 00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:29,100 Saw ? 324 00:25:29,180 --> 00:25:31,460 - Who ? - My lord, the king. Your father. 325 00:25:33,620 --> 00:25:36,180 The king, my father. 326 00:25:36,260 --> 00:25:38,820 Two nights together had these gentlemen Marcellus and Bernardo, 327 00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:42,500 on their watch in the dead, vast middle of the night, been thus encountered. 328 00:25:42,580 --> 00:25:45,980 A figure like your father, armed, appears before them, 329 00:25:46,060 --> 00:25:49,100 and with solemn march goes slow and stately by them. 330 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:51,700 This to me in dread and secrecy did they impart, 331 00:25:51,820 --> 00:25:54,060 and I with them the third night kept the watch, 332 00:25:54,140 --> 00:25:56,980 where, as they�d reported both in time, 333 00:25:57,060 --> 00:26:02,260 form of the thing, each word made true and good, the apparition comes. 334 00:26:02,340 --> 00:26:04,180 I knew your father. 335 00:26:04,260 --> 00:26:06,740 These hands are not more like. 336 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:10,300 - But where was this ? - My lord, upon the platform where we watched. 337 00:26:10,380 --> 00:26:14,060 - Did you not speak to it ? - My lord, I did, but answer made it none. 338 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:17,180 Yet once methought it lifted up its head as it would speak. 339 00:26:17,260 --> 00:26:19,220 But even then the morning cock crew loud, 340 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:22,060 and at the sound it shrunk in haste away and vanished from our sight. 341 00:26:30,180 --> 00:26:33,460 - �Tis very strange. - As I do live, my honored lord, �tis true, 342 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:35,660 and we did think it writ down in our duty to let you know of it. 343 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:38,500 Indeed. Indeed, sirs. 344 00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:41,380 But this troubles me. 345 00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:43,340 - Hold you the watch tonight ? - [ Together ] We do, my lord. 346 00:26:43,420 --> 00:26:44,940 - Armed, say you ? - Armed, my lord. 347 00:26:44,980 --> 00:26:46,460 - From top to toe ? - My lord, from head to foot. 348 00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:49,460 - Then you saw not his face. - Oh, yes, my lord. He wore his visor up. 349 00:26:57,060 --> 00:26:58,940 What looked he ? Frowningly ? 350 00:26:59,060 --> 00:27:01,380 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 351 00:27:01,460 --> 00:27:04,220 - And fixed his eyes upon you. - Most constantly. 352 00:27:05,780 --> 00:27:08,140 - I would I had been there. - It would have much amazed you. 353 00:27:08,180 --> 00:27:10,260 Very like, very like. Stayed it long ? 354 00:27:10,340 --> 00:27:12,180 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. 355 00:27:12,260 --> 00:27:14,980 - Longer. - Longer. - Not when I saw it. 356 00:27:15,060 --> 00:27:17,180 His beard was grizzled, no ? 357 00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:20,540 It was, as I�ve seen it in his life, a sable silver. 358 00:27:22,260 --> 00:27:24,940 - I will watch tonight. Perchance �twill walk again. - I warrant it will. 359 00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:27,700 I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this sight... 360 00:27:27,820 --> 00:27:31,140 and whatsoever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue. 361 00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:33,100 I will requite your loves. So fare you well. 362 00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,140 Upon the platform, twixt 1 1 :== and 1 2:==, I�ll visit you. 363 00:27:35,220 --> 00:27:38,260 - [ All ] Our duty to your honor. - Your loves, as mine to you. Farewell. 364 00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:46,140 [ Thinking ] My father�s spirit... in arms. 365 00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:50,660 All is not well. I doubt some foul play. 366 00:27:50,740 --> 00:27:53,180 Would the night were come ! 367 00:27:53,260 --> 00:27:56,140 Till then, sit still my soul. 368 00:27:57,220 --> 00:27:59,940 Foul deeds will rise, 369 00:28:00,020 --> 00:28:04,260 though all the earth o�erwhelm them, to men�s eyes. 370 00:28:30,420 --> 00:28:33,740 [ Hamlet ] The air bites shrewdly. It is very cold. 371 00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:36,180 [ Horatio ] It is a nipping and an eager air. 372 00:28:44,020 --> 00:28:47,140 - What hour now ? - I think it lacks of 1 2:==. 373 00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:49,180 - No, it is struck. - Indeed ? 374 00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:53,460 I heard it not. It then draws near the season... 375 00:28:53,540 --> 00:28:56,820 wherein the spirit has his wont to walk. 376 00:29:02,060 --> 00:29:04,140 [ Fanfare ] 377 00:29:06,540 --> 00:29:09,580 [ Shouting, Chattering ] 378 00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:17,780 What does this mean, my lord ? 379 00:29:21,620 --> 00:29:24,540 The king doth wake tonight and makes carouse, 380 00:29:24,620 --> 00:29:28,180 keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels. 381 00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:30,100 And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, 382 00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:33,580 the kettledrum and trumpet doth bray out the triumph of his pledge. 383 00:29:33,660 --> 00:29:36,140 - Is it a custom ? - Aye, marry, is�t. 384 00:29:36,220 --> 00:29:39,100 But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, 385 00:29:39,220 --> 00:29:42,460 it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance. 386 00:29:44,740 --> 00:29:46,780 This heavy-headed revel east and west... 387 00:29:46,860 --> 00:29:50,660 makes us traduced and mocked by other nations. 388 00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:56,380 They call us drunkards, and with swinish phrase soil our reputation, 389 00:29:56,460 --> 00:30:00,180 and indeed it takes from our achievements, though performed at height. 390 00:30:00,260 --> 00:30:02,580 [ Cannon Firing ] 391 00:30:16,020 --> 00:30:19,100 So oft it chances in particular men... 392 00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:22,660 that for some vicious mole of nature in them, 393 00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:25,740 by the o�ergrowth of some complexion... 394 00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:28,940 oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason... 395 00:30:29,020 --> 00:30:33,220 or by some habit grown too much that these men, 396 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:36,940 carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, 397 00:30:37,020 --> 00:30:39,180 their virtues else-- be they as pure as grace-- 398 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:43,180 shall in the general censure take corruption... 399 00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:46,100 from that particular fault. 400 00:30:46,220 --> 00:30:49,300 [ Pounding Noise ] 401 00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:55,220 [ Pounding Intensifies ] 402 00:31:00,340 --> 00:31:02,340 Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! 403 00:31:02,420 --> 00:31:05,740 Look, my lord, it comes! 404 00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:12,940 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, 405 00:31:12,980 --> 00:31:16,180 thou comest in such a questionable shape... 406 00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:18,860 that I will speak to thee. 407 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:22,380 I�ll call thee Hamlet, 408 00:31:22,460 --> 00:31:26,340 King, Father. 409 00:31:26,420 --> 00:31:29,860 Royal Dane, oh, answer me ! 410 00:31:33,140 --> 00:31:34,980 It beckons you to go away with it. 411 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:37,540 - It waves you to a more removed ground. - But do not go with it. 412 00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:41,860 - No, by no means. - It will not speak. Then I will follow it. 413 00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:44,900 - Do not, my lord. - Why ? What should be the fear ? 414 00:31:44,980 --> 00:31:47,380 I do not set my life at a pin�s fee, and for my soul, 415 00:31:47,420 --> 00:31:50,340 what can it do to that, being a thing immortal as itself? 416 00:31:53,980 --> 00:31:56,900 It waves me forth again. I�ll follow it! 417 00:31:56,980 --> 00:31:58,860 What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, 418 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:02,380 or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles o�er his base into the sea, 419 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:04,580 and there assume some other horrible form, which might deprive... 420 00:32:04,660 --> 00:32:07,300 your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness ? 421 00:32:07,380 --> 00:32:09,220 - Think of it ! - You shall not go, my lord ! 422 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,540 - Hold off your hands ! - Be ruled ! You shall not go ! 423 00:32:11,660 --> 00:32:15,180 My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body... 424 00:32:15,260 --> 00:32:18,220 as hardy as the Nemean lion�s nerve ! 425 00:32:18,340 --> 00:32:20,620 Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen ! 426 00:32:20,660 --> 00:32:24,140 By heaven, I�ll make a ghost of him that hinders me. I say, away ! 427 00:32:32,020 --> 00:32:34,460 Go on. 428 00:32:34,540 --> 00:32:36,860 I�ll follow thee. 429 00:33:21,140 --> 00:33:23,220 Whither wilt thou lead me ? 430 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,820 Speak. I�ll go no further. 431 00:33:30,940 --> 00:33:32,980 Mark me. 432 00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:35,860 I will. 433 00:33:37,340 --> 00:33:40,740 I am thy father�s spirit, 434 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:45,340 doomed for a certain time to walk the night... 435 00:33:45,420 --> 00:33:50,140 and for the day confined to fast in fires... 436 00:33:50,220 --> 00:33:54,460 till the foul crimes done in my days of nature... 437 00:33:54,580 --> 00:33:58,060 are burned and purged away. 438 00:33:58,140 --> 00:34:01,140 Alas, poor ghost. 439 00:34:01,220 --> 00:34:04,940 List, list, 440 00:34:04,980 --> 00:34:07,260 oh, list. 441 00:34:07,340 --> 00:34:12,180 If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- 442 00:34:12,260 --> 00:34:14,100 Oh, God ! 443 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:20,420 Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. 444 00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:27,420 -Murder ? -Murder most foul, as in the best it is, 445 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,580 but this most foul, 446 00:34:29,620 --> 00:34:33,580 strange and unnatural. 447 00:34:33,620 --> 00:34:36,220 Haste me to know�t, 448 00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:39,300 that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, 449 00:34:39,380 --> 00:34:41,500 may sweep to my revenge. 450 00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:45,620 [ Ghost ] Now, Hamlet, hear. 451 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:48,980 �Tis given out that sleeping in my orchard, 452 00:34:49,060 --> 00:34:51,580 a serpent stung me, 453 00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:53,900 so the whole ear of Denmark... 454 00:34:53,980 --> 00:34:57,180 is by a forged process of my death... 455 00:34:57,260 --> 00:35:00,100 rankly abused. 456 00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:03,020 But know, thou noble youth, 457 00:35:03,060 --> 00:35:07,020 the serpent that did sting thy father�s life... 458 00:35:07,060 --> 00:35:10,060 now wears his crown. 459 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:14,900 [ Hamlet ] Oh, my prophetic soul ! My uncle. 460 00:35:14,980 --> 00:35:19,220 [ Ghost ] Aye, that incestuous, that adulterate beast... 461 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:23,100 with traitorous gifts won to his shameful lust... 462 00:35:23,180 --> 00:35:26,580 the will of my most seeming virtuous queen. 463 00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:33,980 Oh, Hamlet, what a falling off was there. 464 00:35:34,060 --> 00:35:38,740 But soft. Methinks I scent the morning air. 465 00:35:38,820 --> 00:35:41,860 Brief let me be. 466 00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:44,580 Sleeping within my orchard, 467 00:35:44,660 --> 00:35:48,020 my custom always in the afternoon, 468 00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:52,100 upon my quiet hour thy uncle stole... 469 00:35:52,180 --> 00:35:55,660 with juice of cursed hemlock in a vial, 470 00:35:55,740 --> 00:36:01,020 and in the porches of mine ears did pour the leprous distillment, 471 00:36:01,140 --> 00:36:05,580 whose effect holds such an enmity with blood of man... 472 00:36:05,660 --> 00:36:09,740 that swift as quicksilver it courses through the natural gates... 473 00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:13,140 and alleys of the body. 474 00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:17,700 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother�s hand... 475 00:36:17,780 --> 00:36:23,380 of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched-- 476 00:36:23,460 --> 00:36:27,980 cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 477 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:31,940 no reckoning made, but sent to my account... 478 00:36:32,060 --> 00:36:35,460 with all my imperfections on my head. 479 00:36:37,180 --> 00:36:39,820 Oh, horrible. 480 00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:42,380 Horrible ! 481 00:36:42,460 --> 00:36:45,220 Most horrible ! 482 00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:50,260 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. 483 00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:53,220 Let not the royal bed of Denmark... 484 00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:58,220 be a couch for luxury and damned incest. 485 00:36:58,260 --> 00:37:02,380 But howsoever thou pursuest this act, 486 00:37:02,460 --> 00:37:05,380 taint not thy mind... 487 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:08,820 nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught. 488 00:37:11,140 --> 00:37:13,420 Leave her to Heaven. 489 00:37:14,660 --> 00:37:17,220 Fare thee well at once. 490 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:20,820 The glowworm shows the matin to be near... 491 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:25,420 and �gins to pale his uneffectual fire. 492 00:37:25,460 --> 00:37:30,300 Adieu, adieu, 493 00:37:30,380 --> 00:37:33,500 adieu. 494 00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:37,660 Remember me. 495 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,620 [ Heartbeat Pounding ] 496 00:38:02,540 --> 00:38:05,580 O all you host of heaven ! 497 00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:10,820 O earth ! 498 00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:15,500 What else ? And shall I couple hell ? 499 00:38:15,580 --> 00:38:17,740 [ Sobbing ] 500 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,840 Hold, hold my heart ! 501 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,920 Remember thee. 502 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,840 Aye, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat... 503 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,760 in this distracted glow. 504 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,080 Remember thee ? 505 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,000 Yea, from the table of my memory I wipe away... 506 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,280 all trivial fond records that youth and observation copied there. 507 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,240 And thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain, 508 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,840 unmixed with baser matter ! 509 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,800 Yes, by heaven ! 510 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,600 Most pernicious woman. 511 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,360 O villain, villain, 512 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,520 smiling, damned villain. 513 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,680 So, uncle, there you are. 514 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,920 Now to my word. 515 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,440 It is ��Adieu, adieu. 516 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,280 Remember me.�� 517 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,360 I have sworn it. 518 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,840 - [ Horatio ] My lord, my lord! - [ Marcellus ] Lord Hamlet! 519 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,720 So be it. 520 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,480 Illo, my lord ! 521 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,360 [ Shouting ] Illo, ho, ho, boy. Come, bird, come. 522 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,920 - How is�t, my noble lord ? - What news, my lord ? 523 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,600 - Oh, wonderful. - My lord, tell it. 524 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,960 No. You will reveal it. 525 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,960 [ All ] Not I, my lord. 526 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,840 How say you then, would heart of man once think it ? 527 00:39:57,100 --> 00:39:59,340 - But you�ll be secret. - [ All ] Aye, my lord. 528 00:39:59,420 --> 00:40:02,660 There�s ne�er a villain dwelling in all Denmark... 529 00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:08,940 but he�s an arrant knave. 530 00:40:11,740 --> 00:40:15,580 There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave to tell us this. 531 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:19,220 Why, right. You are in the right. 532 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:22,820 So, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part. 533 00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:25,780 You as your business and desire shall point you, for every man hath business... 534 00:40:25,860 --> 00:40:30,380 and desire such as it is, and from mine own poor part, look you, I�ll go pray. 535 00:40:30,460 --> 00:40:32,580 [ Horatio ] These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. 536 00:40:32,660 --> 00:40:34,900 - I�m sorry they offend you heartily. Yes, faith, heartily. - There�s no offense-- 537 00:40:34,980 --> 00:40:38,420 Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio. And much offense too ! 538 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:42,220 Touching this vision here, it is an honest ghost, that let me tell you. 539 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:46,580 For your desire to know what is between us, o�ermaster it as you may. 540 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:49,580 And now, good friends, as you are friends, scholars and soldiers, 541 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:51,540 give me one poor request. 542 00:40:51,620 --> 00:40:53,900 - What is�t, my lord ? We will. - Never make known what you have seen tonight. 543 00:40:53,980 --> 00:40:55,660 - My lord, we will not. - Nay, but swear it. 544 00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:57,140 - In faith, my lord, not I. - Not I, my lord. 545 00:40:57,220 --> 00:40:59,500 - Upon my sword. - We have sworn, my lord, already. 546 00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:02,700 - Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. - Oh, day and night, but this is wondrous strange. 547 00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:04,900 And therefore, as a stranger, give it welcome. 548 00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:06,940 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 549 00:41:07,020 --> 00:41:09,700 than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 550 00:41:09,740 --> 00:41:12,620 But come. Never, so help you mercy, 551 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:15,220 how strange or odd so e�er I bear myself, 552 00:41:15,340 --> 00:41:17,180 as I perchance hereafter shall think fit... 553 00:41:17,260 --> 00:41:19,780 to put an antic disposition on, 554 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:21,860 that you, at such times seeing me, 555 00:41:21,980 --> 00:41:25,420 never shall, by the pronouncing of some doubtful phrase as, ��Well, well, we know,�� 556 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:27,780 or ��We could, and if we would,�� or such ambiguous giving out, 557 00:41:27,820 --> 00:41:29,860 denote that you know aught of me. 558 00:41:29,940 --> 00:41:33,420 This do swear, so grace and mercy at your best need help you. 559 00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:37,740 [ Heartbeat Pounding ] 560 00:41:37,780 --> 00:41:40,140 [ Ghost ] Swear. 561 00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:43,820 Rest. 562 00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:48,940 Rest, perturbed spirit. 563 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,140 So, gentlemen, 564 00:41:55,180 --> 00:41:57,940 with all my love, I do commend me to you. 565 00:41:58,020 --> 00:42:02,060 And what so poor a man as Hamlet is may do to express his love and friending to you, 566 00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:04,820 God willing, shall not lack. 567 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:07,260 Go in, and still your fingers on your lips I pray. 568 00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:13,980 The time is out of joint. 569 00:42:18,140 --> 00:42:21,380 Oh, cursed spite, 570 00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:24,100 that ever I was born to set it right. 571 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:28,380 Come. Let�s go together. 572 00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:51,380 [ Ophelia Narrating ] As I was sewing in my closet, 573 00:42:55,540 --> 00:42:57,980 Lord Hamlet, 574 00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:01,620 with his doublet all unlaced, 575 00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:04,540 pale as his shirt... 576 00:43:04,620 --> 00:43:06,860 and with a look... 577 00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:10,180 so piteous in purport... 578 00:43:10,260 --> 00:43:14,380 as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors, 579 00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:16,740 he comes before me. 580 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:20,140 He took me by the wrist... 581 00:43:20,220 --> 00:43:23,620 and held me hard. 582 00:43:23,740 --> 00:43:27,460 Then goes he to the length of all his arm, 583 00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:32,220 and with his other hand thus o�er his brow, 584 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:36,540 he falls to such perusal of my face... 585 00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:40,140 as he would draw it. 586 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:42,620 Long stayed he so. 587 00:43:44,260 --> 00:43:48,580 At last, a little shaking of mine arm... 588 00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:51,980 and thrice his head thus waving up and down. 589 00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:56,420 He raised a sigh... 590 00:43:56,540 --> 00:43:59,780 so piteous and profound... 591 00:43:59,860 --> 00:44:02,700 as it did seem to shatter all his bulk... 592 00:44:02,820 --> 00:44:04,940 and end his being. 593 00:44:06,460 --> 00:44:10,500 That done, he let me go, 594 00:44:10,540 --> 00:44:14,060 and with his head over his shoulder turned, 595 00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:18,180 he seemed to find his way without his eyes, 596 00:44:18,260 --> 00:44:22,180 for out of doors he went without their help... 597 00:44:22,260 --> 00:44:27,700 and, to the last, bended their light... 598 00:44:27,820 --> 00:44:30,300 on me. 599 00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:47,860 My liege and madam, 600 00:44:47,940 --> 00:44:52,220 to expostulate what majesty should be, what duty is, 601 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:55,260 why day is day, night night and time is time... 602 00:44:55,340 --> 00:44:58,620 were nothing but to waste night, day and time. 603 00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:01,580 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit... 604 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:06,500 and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. 605 00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:09,980 Your noble son is mad. 606 00:45:10,060 --> 00:45:13,340 Mad call I it, for to define true madness, 607 00:45:13,420 --> 00:45:17,060 what is�t but to be nothing else but mad? 608 00:45:17,140 --> 00:45:19,180 More matter with less art. 609 00:45:19,260 --> 00:45:22,620 Madam, I swear I use no art at all. 610 00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:26,460 That he is mad, �tis true. �Tis true, �tis pity, 611 00:45:26,540 --> 00:45:28,580 and pity �tis, �tis true. 612 00:45:28,620 --> 00:45:32,860 A foolish figure, but farewell it, for I will use no art. 613 00:45:32,940 --> 00:45:37,660 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. 614 00:45:37,780 --> 00:45:39,900 Perpend: 615 00:45:39,980 --> 00:45:43,340 I have a daughter-- have, while she is mine-- 616 00:45:43,420 --> 00:45:48,420 who in her duty and obedience, mark, hath given me this. 617 00:45:48,460 --> 00:45:51,500 Now gather and surmise. 618 00:45:51,580 --> 00:45:54,740 ��To the celestial and my soul�s idol, 619 00:45:54,820 --> 00:45:57,700 the most beautified Ophelia.�� 620 00:45:57,780 --> 00:46:00,540 That�s an ill phrase, a vile phrase. 621 00:46:00,620 --> 00:46:03,140 ��Beautified�� is a vile phrase. 622 00:46:03,260 --> 00:46:06,140 But you shall hear. Thus: 623 00:46:06,260 --> 00:46:10,180 ��In her excellent white bosom, these--�� 624 00:46:10,260 --> 00:46:12,100 Et cetera. 625 00:46:12,180 --> 00:46:15,060 - Came this from Hamlet to her ? - Good madam, stay a while. 626 00:46:15,140 --> 00:46:17,500 I will be faithful. 627 00:46:17,580 --> 00:46:20,340 ��Doubt thou the stars are fire. 628 00:46:20,420 --> 00:46:22,940 Doubt that the sun doth move. 629 00:46:23,020 --> 00:46:25,100 Doubt truth to be a liar, 630 00:46:25,180 --> 00:46:28,260 but never doubt I love. 631 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,460 Oh, dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. 632 00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:34,700 I have not art to reckon my groans. 633 00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:38,740 But that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. 634 00:46:38,860 --> 00:46:42,500 Adieu. Thine evermore, most dear lady, 635 00:46:42,580 --> 00:46:45,900 while this frame is to him, Hamlet.�� 636 00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:49,180 This in obedience hath my daughter shown me, 637 00:46:49,260 --> 00:46:51,300 and more above, hath his solicitings, 638 00:46:51,340 --> 00:46:53,700 as they fell out by time, by means and place, 639 00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:56,620 all given to mine ear. 640 00:46:56,700 --> 00:46:59,300 But how hath she received his love ? 641 00:46:59,380 --> 00:47:01,260 What do you think of me ? 642 00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:03,980 As of a man faithful and honorable. 643 00:47:04,060 --> 00:47:05,900 I would fain prove so. 644 00:47:06,020 --> 00:47:09,780 But what might you think, when I had seen this hot love on the wing, 645 00:47:09,900 --> 00:47:12,740 if I had looked upon this love with idle sight ? 646 00:47:12,780 --> 00:47:16,580 What might you think ? No, I went round to work, 647 00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:19,340 and my young mistress thus I did bespeak: 648 00:47:19,420 --> 00:47:24,580 ��Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star. This must not be.�� 649 00:47:24,660 --> 00:47:26,820 And then I prescripts gave her that she should... 650 00:47:26,860 --> 00:47:31,300 lock herself from his resort, admit no messengers, receive no tokens. 651 00:47:31,340 --> 00:47:35,340 And he, repulsed, a short tale to make, fell into a sadness, 652 00:47:35,420 --> 00:47:38,380 then into a fast, thence to a watch, thence to a weakness, 653 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:40,860 thence into a lightness, and by this declension... 654 00:47:40,940 --> 00:47:43,620 into that madness wherein now he raves... 655 00:47:43,660 --> 00:47:46,820 and all we mourn for. 656 00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:49,060 Do you think �tis this ? 657 00:47:49,100 --> 00:47:53,100 It may be, very likely. 658 00:47:53,180 --> 00:47:56,380 Hath there been such a time, I� d fain know that, 659 00:47:56,460 --> 00:48:00,140 that I have positively said ���Tis so�� that it proved otherwise ? 660 00:48:00,220 --> 00:48:02,460 Not that I know. 661 00:48:02,540 --> 00:48:06,180 Take this from this if this be otherwise. 662 00:48:06,220 --> 00:48:08,500 [ King ] How may we try it further ? 663 00:48:08,580 --> 00:48:12,340 You know, sometimes he walks four hours together here in the lobby. 664 00:48:12,420 --> 00:48:14,860 - [ Queen ] So he does, indeed. - At such a time... 665 00:48:14,980 --> 00:48:17,140 I�ll loose my daughter to him. 666 00:48:17,220 --> 00:48:19,500 Be you and I behind an arras then. 667 00:48:19,580 --> 00:48:22,100 Mark the encounter. If he loves her not, 668 00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:24,900 and be not from his reason fallen thereon, 669 00:48:24,980 --> 00:48:27,220 let me be no assistant for a state... 670 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:29,500 but keep a farm and carters. 671 00:48:29,580 --> 00:48:31,460 [ King ] We will try it. 672 00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:35,300 But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. 673 00:48:41,260 --> 00:48:43,620 Away. I do beseech you both, away, 674 00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:46,580 I�ll board him presently. 675 00:48:46,660 --> 00:48:48,900 Oh, give me leave. 676 00:48:55,020 --> 00:48:57,980 How does my good Lord Hamlet ? 677 00:48:58,060 --> 00:49:02,020 - Well, God-a-mercy. - Do you know me, my lord ? 678 00:49:02,060 --> 00:49:06,860 - Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. - Not I, my lord. 679 00:49:06,940 --> 00:49:09,700 - Then I would you were so honest a man. - Honest, my lord ? 680 00:49:09,740 --> 00:49:12,380 Aye, sir. To be honest as this world goes... 681 00:49:12,460 --> 00:49:15,140 is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. 682 00:49:15,260 --> 00:49:17,100 That�s very true, my lord. 683 00:49:17,180 --> 00:49:19,940 For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog-- 684 00:49:22,420 --> 00:49:25,340 Have you a daughter ? 685 00:49:25,420 --> 00:49:30,140 - I have, my lord. - Let her not walk in the sun. 686 00:49:30,220 --> 00:49:32,180 Conception is a blessing, 687 00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:35,220 but as your daughter may conceive, 688 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:37,860 friend, look to it. 689 00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:43,460 How say you by that ? Still harping on my daughter. 690 00:49:43,500 --> 00:49:47,180 Yet he knew me not at first. He said I was a fishmonger. 691 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:49,660 He�s far gone, far gone. 692 00:49:49,780 --> 00:49:52,220 But I�ll speak to him again. 693 00:50:05,420 --> 00:50:08,460 What do you read, my lord ? 694 00:50:08,540 --> 00:50:10,080 Words, words, words. 695 00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,560 - What is the matter, my lord ? - Between who ? 696 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:17,080 - I mean, the letter that you read, my lord. - Slander, sir. 697 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,680 For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, 698 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,400 that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber... 699 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,480 and plum tree gum, 700 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,120 that they have a plentiful lack of wit, 701 00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,160 together with most weak hams. 702 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:35,920 All of which, sir, though I most powerfully believe, 703 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,200 yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, 704 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:40,600 for you yourself, sir, shall be old as I am... 705 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,440 if like a crab you could go backward. 706 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,960 Though this be madness, yet there�s method in�t. 707 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,920 -Will you walk out of the air, my lord ? -Into my grave ? 708 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000 Indeed, that is out of the air. 709 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,360 How pregnant sometimes his replies are. 710 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:01,040 My honorable lord, 711 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,480 I will most humbly take my leave of you. 712 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:07,640 You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal. 713 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,640 Except my life. 714 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,480 Except my life. 715 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,680 Except my life. 716 00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,320 Read on this book. 717 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,600 That show of such an exercise may color your loneliness. 718 00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:57,680 Gracious, so please you, we�ll bestow ourselves. 719 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,080 Ophelia, walk you here. 720 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,880 Let�s withdraw, my lord. 721 00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,040 Soft you now. 722 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,640 The fair Ophelia. 723 00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,640 Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered. 724 00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,640 Good, my lord ! 725 00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,000 How does Your Honor for this many a day ? 726 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,480 I humbly thank you. 727 00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:11,240 Well, well, well. 728 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,640 My lord, I have remembrances of yours... 729 00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:20,920 that I have longed long to redeliver. 730 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,680 I pray you now, receive them. 731 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,960 No, not I. 732 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,360 I never gave you aught. 733 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,480 My honored lord, you know right well you did. 734 00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,200 And with them, words of so sweet breath composed... 735 00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:38,000 as made the things more rich. 736 00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:41,640 Their perfume lost, take these again, 737 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:44,360 for to the noble mind, rich gifts wax poor... 738 00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,240 when givers prove unkind. 739 00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,440 There, my lord. 740 00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,320 Are you honest ? 741 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,840 My lord ? 742 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,440 I did love you once. 743 00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,440 Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. 744 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,480 You should not have believed me. 745 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,560 Get thee to a nunnery. 746 00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,760 Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners ? 747 00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,160 I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things... 748 00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:31,600 that it were better my mother had not borne me. 749 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:33,920 I am very proud, 750 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,000 revengeful, 751 00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,440 ambitious, 752 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,880 with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, 753 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,240 imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. 754 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,840 What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth ? 755 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:53,120 We are arrant knaves all. Believe none of us. 756 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,640 Go thy ways to a nunnery. 757 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,080 Where�s your father ? 758 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,960 At home, my lord. [ Sobbing ] 759 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,560 Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in his own house. 760 00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,760 - Farewell ! - [ Sobbing ] Oh, help me, you sweet heavens. 761 00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,400 I have heard your paintings too, well enough ! 762 00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,320 God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. 763 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,240 You jig, you amble, you lisp. 764 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,080 You nickname God�s creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. 765 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,720 Get thee to a nunnery, and quickly, too. Farewell ! 766 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,680 Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, 767 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,960 for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. 768 00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,320 - Go to ! I�ll no more of it ! - [ Sobbing ] 769 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,720 - It hath made me mad. - [ Continues Sobbing ] 770 00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,840 I say we will have no more marriages ! 771 00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:45,120 Those that are married already, 772 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,480 all but one shall live ! 773 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,680 The rest shall stay as they are. 774 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,520 [ Continues Sobbing ] 775 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,480 To a nunnery... go. 776 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,680 [ Wailing ] 777 00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,440 Love ! His affections do not that way tend. 778 00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,120 Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, 779 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,000 was not like madness. 780 00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,320 There�s something in his soul... 781 00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,800 o�er which his melancholy sits on brood. 782 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:42,440 And I do fear the unheeded consequence will be some danger, 783 00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:47,120 the which to prevent I have in quick determination thus set it down. 784 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,040 He shall with speed to England. 785 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,280 Haply the seas and countries different with variable objects... 786 00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:57,160 shall expel this something settled matter in his heart. 787 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,520 - What think you on�t ? - It shall do well, 788 00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,120 but yet I do believe the origin and commencement of his grief... 789 00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,760 sprung from neglected love. 790 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,240 How now, Ophelia ? 791 00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,880 You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said. 792 00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:14,240 We heard it all. 793 00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,520 My lord, do as you please. 794 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:22,160 It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. 795 00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,680 [ Sobbing ] 796 00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,440 To be, 797 00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,360 or not to be. 798 00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:54,720 That is the question. 799 01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,760 Whether �tis nobler in the mind... 800 01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,560 to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune... 801 01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,160 or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 802 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,040 and by opposing... 803 01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,640 end them. 804 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,720 [ Thinking ] To die. 805 01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,360 To sleep no more. 806 01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,320 And by a sleep to say we end the heartache... 807 01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:38,200 and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, 808 01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,080 �tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. 809 01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,000 To die, to sleep. 810 01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,720 To sleep. 811 01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:51,200 Perchance to dream ! 812 01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,600 Aye, there�s the rub. 813 01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,400 For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come... 814 01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,040 when we have shuffled off this mortal coil... 815 01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,000 must give us pause. 816 01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:11,480 There�s the respect that makes calamity of so long life. 817 01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:15,840 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 818 01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,640 the oppressor�s wrong, 819 01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,360 the proud man�s contumely, 820 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,240 the pangs of despised love, 821 01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,520 the law�s delays, 822 01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,040 the insolence of office... 823 01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:37,400 and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes... 824 01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:41,240 when he himself might his quietus make... 825 01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,120 with a bare bodkin ? 826 01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,720 Who would fardels bear, 827 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,040 to grunt and sweat under a weary life, 828 01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:56,280 but that the dread of something after death, 829 01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:01,920 the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns, 830 01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:03,840 puzzles the will... 831 01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,360 and makes us rather bear those ills we have... 832 01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,720 than fly to others that we know not of? 833 01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:26,400 Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all. 834 01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,440 And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o�er... 835 01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:34,680 with the pale cast of thought. 836 01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,240 And enterprises of great pith and moment... 837 01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:51,840 with this regard their currents turn awry... 838 01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,840 and lose the name of action. 839 01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:29,240 My lord, I have news to tell you. 840 01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:35,760 The actors are come hither, my lord. 841 01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,320 He that plays the king shall be welcome. 842 01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,520 ��The best actors in the world, 843 01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:52,640 either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, 844 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,480 pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, 845 01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:59,920 tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. 846 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,080 Seneca cannot be too heavy nor Plautus too light. 847 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:05,520 For these are the only men.�� 848 01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,720 - [ Dog Barking ] - [ Actors Chattering ] 849 01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,720 You are welcome, masters. Welcome, all. 850 01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,120 - [ Dog Barks ] - I am glad to see thee well. 851 01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:26,920 - [ Actors Laugh ] - Welcome, good friends ! 852 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,600 - [ Musicians Play Flourish ] - [ Hamlet Laughs ] 853 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:32,920 Oh, my old friend. Why, thy face is valanced since I saw thee last. 854 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:34,840 Comest thou to beard me in Denmark ? 855 01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,160 - [ Actors Laugh ] - What, my young lady and mistress ! 856 01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:40,080 By our lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last. 857 01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:43,600 Pray God, your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked in its ring. 858 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:47,600 - [ Laughing ] - Masters, you are all welcome ! 859 01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:49,600 Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? 860 01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:51,480 Do you hear, let them be well used, 861 01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,840 for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. 862 01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:58,520 After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. 863 01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,440 My lord, I will use them according to their desert. 864 01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,880 God�s bodykins, much better. Use every man after his desert and who shall escape whipping ? 865 01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:06,840 Use them after your own honor and dignity. 866 01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,240 The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in. 867 01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,160 - Come, sirs. - Follow him, friends. 868 01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,080 We hear a play tomorrow. 869 01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:20,760 Dost hear me, old friend. 870 01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,160 Can you play The Murder of Gonzago ? 871 01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,680 - Aye, my lord. - We�ll have it tomorrow night. 872 01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,400 You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines... 873 01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:32,400 that I would set down and insert in it, could you not ? 874 01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:34,800 Aye, my lord. 875 01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,840 Very well. Follow that lord, and look you mock him not. 876 01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:39,760 [ Chuckles ] 877 01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:10,280 The play�s the thing wherein I�ll catch the conscience of the king ! 878 01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,960 [ Hamlet ] Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, 879 01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,600 trippingly on the tongue. 880 01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:28,160 But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, 881 01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,960 I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. 882 01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:37,440 Nor do not saw the air too much with you hand, thus, 883 01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:39,640 but use all gently. 884 01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:43,920 For in the very torrent, tempest and, as I may say, whirlwind, of your passion, 885 01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:48,680 you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. 886 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:53,280 Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow... 887 01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:56,720 tear a passion to tatters to split the ears of the groundlings, 888 01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:58,600 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing... 889 01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:01,840 but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. 890 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,360 I would have such a fellow whipped. 891 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,840 It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 892 01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,960 - I warrant, Your Honor. - Hmm. 893 01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:14,240 Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. 894 01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,120 Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. 895 01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:22,680 With this special observance, that you o�erstep not the modesty of nature. 896 01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:25,760 For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, 897 01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:27,920 whose end, both of the first and now, 898 01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,600 was and is to hold as �twere... 899 01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:33,920 the mirror up to Nature, 900 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,240 to show Virtue her own feature, 901 01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,360 Scorn her own image... 902 01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:41,600 and the very age and body of the time... 903 01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,760 his form and pressure. 904 01:07:45,500 --> 01:07:47,340 Now this, overdone, 905 01:07:47,420 --> 01:07:50,820 though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. 906 01:07:50,860 --> 01:07:55,820 The censure of which one must in your allowance outweigh a whole theatre of others. 907 01:07:55,900 --> 01:07:58,060 Oh, there be players that I have seen play... 908 01:07:58,140 --> 01:08:01,900 and heard others praise-- and that highly, not to speak of profanely-- 909 01:08:01,940 --> 01:08:06,900 that having neither the accent of Christians nor the gait of pagan, Christian nor man, 910 01:08:06,980 --> 01:08:10,060 have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature�s journeymen... 911 01:08:10,140 --> 01:08:14,020 have made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 912 01:08:14,100 --> 01:08:17,620 I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. 913 01:08:17,740 --> 01:08:19,980 Oh, reform it altogether. 914 01:08:20,060 --> 01:08:23,660 And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. 915 01:08:23,700 --> 01:08:25,980 For there be of them that will themselves laugh... 916 01:08:26,060 --> 01:08:28,900 to set on some barren quantity of spectators to laugh too, 917 01:08:28,980 --> 01:08:31,780 though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. 918 01:08:31,820 --> 01:08:35,860 That�s villainous ! And shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 919 01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,840 Go, make you ready. 920 01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:07,400 How now, my lord. Will the king hear this piece of work ? 921 01:09:07,480 --> 01:09:09,640 And the queen too, and that presently. 922 01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,120 - Bid the players make haste. - Aye, my lord. 923 01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,680 - Horatio. - Here, sweet lord, at your service. 924 01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:30,920 - Observe mine uncle. Give him heedful note. - Well, my lord. 925 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:34,560 They are coming to the play. I must be idle. Get you a place. 926 01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:42,680 [ Trumpet Flourish ] 927 01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,840 [ Continues ] 928 01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:42,680 How fares our cousin Hamlet ? 929 01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,840 Excellent, i� faith. Of the chameleon�s dish. 930 01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,040 I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so. 931 01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,680 I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These words are not mine. 932 01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:54,480 No, nor mine now. My lord, you played once in the university, you say ? 933 01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:56,920 That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor. 934 01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,480 - What did you enact ? - I did enact Julius Caesar. 935 01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,920 I was killed in the Capitol. Brutus killed me. 936 01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,760 - It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. - [ Laughs ] 937 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:08,240 - Be the players ready ? - Aye, my lord. They stay upon your patience. 938 01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:11,120 Come hither, my dear Hamlet. Sit by me. 939 01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:15,320 - No, good Mother. Here�s metal more attractive. - [ Onlookers Gasp ] 940 01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:24,120 Oh, ho. Did you mark that ? 941 01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,640 Lady, shall I lie in your lap ? 942 01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:32,280 - No, my lord. - I mean my head upon your lap. 943 01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:35,000 - Aye, my lord. - Do you think I meant country matters ? 944 01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:38,400 - I think nothing, my lord. - That�s a fair thought to lie between maid�s legs. 945 01:11:39,440 --> 01:11:41,560 - What is, my lord ? - Nothing. 946 01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:43,480 - You are merry, my lord. - Who ? I ? 947 01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:45,400 - Aye, my lord. - Oh, God, your only jig maker. 948 01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:47,320 Why, what should a man do but be merry ? 949 01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:51,960 For look you how merrily my mother looks, and my father died within two hours ! 950 01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:55,920 Nay, �tis twice two months, my lord. 951 01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:59,760 So long ? Nay, then. Let the devil wear black, for I�ll have a suit of sables. 952 01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:02,800 O heavens. Died two months ago, and not forgotten yet ? 953 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,440 Why then there�s hope a great man�s memory may outlive his life half a year. 954 01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,880 [ Trumpet Fanfare ] 955 01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,720 For us and for our tragedy, 956 01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,760 here stooping to your clemency, 957 01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:24,240 we beg your hearing patiently. 958 01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,160 [ Scattered Clapping ] 959 01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:33,440 - Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring ? - �Tis brief, my lord. 960 01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,080 As woman�s love. 961 01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:39,920 You are keen, my lord. You are keen. 962 01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,200 It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge. 963 01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:13,760 [ Clapping ] 964 01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,480 [ Audience Murmurs ] 965 01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,560 Give me some light ! 966 01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:38,880 - [ Laughing ] - Away ! 967 01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:42,040 Lights ! Lights ! 968 01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,680 Lights! Lights! 969 01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,240 [ Women Screaming ] 970 01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:10,200 Why, let the stricken deer go weep 971 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,440 The hart ungalled play 972 01:17:12,480 --> 01:17:14,680 For some must watch whilst some must sleep 973 01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,480 Thus runs the world away 974 01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,760 Oh, good Horatio ! I�ll take the ghost�s word for a thousand pounds. Didst perceive ? 975 01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:23,480 - Very well, my lord. - Upon the act of poisoning. God bless you, sir ! 976 01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,520 - Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. - Sir, a whole history. 977 01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,440 - The king, sir-- - Aye, sir, what of him ? 978 01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,320 - He is in his retirement marvelous distempered. - With drink, sir ? 979 01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:33,240 No, my lord. Rather with choler. 980 01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,800 Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to the doctor. 981 01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,040 For, for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler. 982 01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:43,000 Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair. 983 01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,640 - I am tame, sir. Pronounce. - The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit... 984 01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:48,960 - hath sent me to you. - You are welcome. 985 01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,080 Nay, my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed. 986 01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:54,000 If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother�s commandment. 987 01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:57,080 If not, your pardon, and my return shall be the end of my business. 988 01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:59,000 - Sir, I cannot. - What, my lord ? 989 01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,400 Make you a wholesome answer. My wit�s diseased. 990 01:18:01,440 --> 01:18:03,680 But sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command. 991 01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:05,760 Or rather, as you say, my mother. Therefore no more, but to the matter. 992 01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:09,160 - My mother, you say. - She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed. 993 01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:12,680 We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you any further trade with us ? 994 01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:16,920 My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently ! 995 01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:20,120 Do you see yonder cloud that�s almost in shape of a camel ? 996 01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:24,720 By the mass, and �tis like a camel indeed. 997 01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,200 Methinks it is like a weasel. 998 01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:30,600 - It is backed like a weasel. - Or like a whale ? 999 01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:32,520 Very like a whale. 1000 01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:36,360 Then I will come to my mother by and by. 1001 01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:38,280 I will say so. 1002 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,760 ��By and by�� is easily said. 1003 01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:52,440 Leave me, friend. 1004 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:16,120 �Tis now the very witching time of night, 1005 01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:20,240 when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion... 1006 01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:22,160 to this world. 1007 01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:28,120 Now could I drink hot blood... 1008 01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:32,120 and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on. 1009 01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:36,480 Soft. 1010 01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,440 Now to my mother. 1011 01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:47,960 O heart, lose not thy nature. 1012 01:19:49,480 --> 01:19:54,160 Let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom. 1013 01:19:56,840 --> 01:20:00,240 Let me be cruel, not unnatural. 1014 01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:05,800 I will speak daggers to her, 1015 01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:07,720 but use none. 1016 01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:16,040 [ Panting ] 1017 01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,640 My lord ? 1018 01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:20,760 He�s going to his mother�s closet. 1019 01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:24,000 Behind the arras I�ll conceal myself to hear the process. 1020 01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:27,240 I warrant she�ll tax him home, and as you said-- 1021 01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:33,040 and wisely was it said-- �tis meet that some more audience than a mother-- 1022 01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:36,840 since nature makes them partial-- should o�er hear the speech of vantage. 1023 01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,640 Fare you well, my liege. I�ll call upon you ere you go to bed... 1024 01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,240 and tell you what I know. 1025 01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,160 - Thanks, dear my lord. - [ Mutters ]