No Fear Shakespeare
Hamlet
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 3, Scene 4, Page 2
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GERTRUDE
Nay, then I’ll set those to you that can speak.
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GERTRUDE
In that case I’ll call in others who can still
speak.
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HAMLET
Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge.
You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you.
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HAMLET
No, sit down. You won’t budge until I hold a mirror up
to you, where you will see what’s deep inside you.
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GERTRUDE
What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?
Help, help, ho!
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GERTRUDE
What are you going to do? You won’t kill me, will you?
Help!
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POLONIUS
(from behind the arras) What, ho?
Help, help, help!
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POLONIUS
(from behind the tapestry) Hey!
Help, help, help!
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HAMLET
How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!
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HAMLET
What’s this, a rat? I’ll bet a buck
he’s a dead rat now.
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(stabs his sword through the arras and kills
POLONIUS) |
(he stabs his sword through the tapestry and kills
POLONIUS) |
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POLONIUS
(from behind the arras) Oh, I am
slain.
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POLONIUS
(from behind the tapestry) Oh,
I’ve been killed!
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GERTRUDE
O me, what hast thou done?
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GERTRUDE
Oh my God, what have you done?
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HAMLET
Nay, I know not. Is it the king?
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HAMLET
I don’t know. Is it the king?
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GERTRUDE
Oh, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
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GERTRUDE
Oh, what a senseless, horrible act!
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HAMLET
A bloody deed? Almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king and marry with his brother.
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HAMLET
A horrible act—almost as bad, my good mother, as
killing a king and marrying his brother.
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GERTRUDE
As kill a king?
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GERTRUDE
Killing a king?
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HAMLET
Ay, lady, ’twas my word.
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HAMLET
That’s what I said, my good woman.
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(draws back the arras and discovers
POLONIUS) |
(he pulls back the tapestry and discovers
POLONIUS) |
