Hamlet

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare
Presented by Paul W. Collins




























































© Copyright 2005 by Paul W. Collins


















Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
Presented by Paul W. Collins


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Note:Spoken lines from Shakespeare’s drama are in the public domain, as is the Globe edition (1864) of his plays, which provided the basic text of the speeches in this new version
of Hamlet. But Hamlet, by William Shakespeare: Presented by Paul W. Collins, is a copyrighted work, and is made available for your personal use only, in reading and study.


Student, beware: This is a presentation,not a scholarly work, so you should be sure your teacher, instructor or professor considers it acceptable as a reference before quoting characters’ comments or thoughts from it in your report or term paper.
















































Chapter One
Returnings


D
arkness surrounds the battlement high atop the King ofDenmark’s massive castle at Elsinore, as a bleak autumn night wears away near the close of the first thousand-year span of the Christian Lord’s dominion.
An aging sentinel paces steadily in silence, occasionally peering out over the strait, then down toward roads into shadowed land beyond the stone fortress. Francisco is finishing his long watch. The royal court has been much troubled, he knows, by theking’s death, the queen’s remarriage—and a rumor of war.
As he approaches a tower, another soldier comes up to relieve him. “Who’s there?” asks the dim figure, emerging from a torch-lit arch.
“Nay, answer me!” says the sentry. “Stand, and unfold yourself!” he challenges.
“Long live the king!” says Barnardo.
“You come most carefully upon your hour.”
“Get thee to bed, Francisco.”“For this relief much thanks; ’tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.”
“Have you had quiet guard?”
“Not a mouse stirring.”
“Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, th’arrivals on my watch, bid them make haste,” says Barnardo, walking away to begin his own set of rounds.
Francisco, weary, is already leaving. “I think I hear them,” he grumbles. “Stand, ho!Who’s there?”
Two young gentlemen are climbing the narrow steps into the flickering light. “Friends to this ground,” says Horatio, a visitor at the palace. “And liegemen to the Dane,” adds Marcellus, an officer of that king’s guard.
“’Give you good night,” says Francisco, starting down.
“Farewell, honest soldier. Who hath relieved you?” asks Marcellus.
“Barnardo has my place. ’Give yougood night.” He disappears into the gloom below.
Marcellus calls, “Holla! Barnardo!”
As he hurries back, the sentinel asks, eagerly, “Say: what, is Horatio there?”
“A piece of him,” the student answers dryly as they shake hands; he questions the value of their dead-of-night visit.
“Welcome, Horatio!” says Barnardo. “Welcome, good Marcellus.”
“Well, has this thing appeared againtonight?” asks the lieutenant.
“I have seen nothing,” Barnardo admits.
“Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy, and will not let belief take hold of him touching this dreaded sight, twice seen by us,” says Marcellus. “Therefore I have entreated him along with us to watch the minutes of this night, so that if again the apparition come, he may approve our eyes, and speak to it.”
Horatio...
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