Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1. Please see the bottom of the page for full explanatory notes and helpful resources. ACT I SCENE I Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Enter to him BERNARDO. Bernardo! BERNARDOSay,What, is Horatio there? HORATIOA piece of him.
BERNARDOWelcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. MARCELLUSWhat, has this thing appear'd again to- night? BERNARDOI have seen nothing. MARCELLUSHoratio says 'tis but our fantasy,And will not let belief take hold of him. Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along. With us to watch the minutes of this night; That if again this apparition come,He may approve our eyes and speak to it. HORATIOTush, tush, 'twill not appear. BERNARDOSit down awhile; 3. Turner Gas Company is family-owned and has successfully served customers for over 75 years. We are the market leader in energy and chemical transportation, marketing and logistics throughout the Western & Central United States. Leopold Godowsky was born to parents of Jewish ancestry, Anna and Matthew Godowsky, in . Godowsky's father, a respected physician, died when he was a. And let us once again assail your ears,That are so fortified against our story. What we have two nights seen. HORATIOWell, sit we down,And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. BERNARDOLast night of all,When yond same star that's westward from the pole. Had made his course to illume that part of heaven. Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,The bell then beating one,- -? I charge thee, speak!! Our last king,8. 0Whose image even but now appear'd to us,Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet- -For so this side of our known world esteem'd him- -Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,Well ratified by law and heraldry,Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands. Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror: Against the which, a moiety competent. Was gaged by our king; which had return'd. To the inheritance of Fortinbras,Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,And carriage of the article design'd,His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,Of unimproved mettle hot and full,Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there. Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,For food and diet, to some enterprise. That hath a stomach in't; which is no other- -1. As it doth well appear unto our state- -But to recover of us, by strong hand. And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. So by his father lost: and this, I take it,Is the main motive of our preparations,The source of this our watch and the chief head. Of this post- haste and romage in the land. BERNARDOI think it be no other but e'en so: Well may it sort that this portentous figure. Comes armed through our watch; so like the king. That was and is the question of these wars. HORATIOA mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead. Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,Disasters in the sun; and the moist star. Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands. Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: 1. And even the like precurse of fierce events,As harbingers preceding still the fates. And prologue to the omen coming on,Have heaven and earth together demonstrated. Unto our climatures and countrymen.- -But soft, behold! Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,Speak to me: If there be any good thing to be done,1. That may to thee do ease and grace to me,Speak to me: ! Stop it, Marcellus. MARCELLUSShall I strike at it with my partisan? HORATIODo, if it will not stand. BERNARDO'Tis here! HORATIO'Tis here! MARCELLUS'Tis gone! I have heard,The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,1. Doth with his lofty and shrill- sounding throat. Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,The extravagant and erring spirit hies. To his confine: and of the truth herein. This present object made probation. MARCELLUSIt faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes. Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,The bird of dawning singeth all night long: 1. And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIOSo have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: Break we our watch up; and by my advice,Let us impart what we have seen to- night. Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,1. This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? MARCELLUSLet's do't, I pray; and I this morning know. Where we shall find him most conveniently. London: Macmillan. Stage Direction. Elsinore, the modern Helsingor, a seaport. Denmark, to the north- west of Copenhagen: A platform before the castle, a terrace in front of the castle, up and down which the sentinels patrolled. Malone supposed this to be the watch- word, but Delius points out that Horatio and Marcellus, when similarly challenged, give another answer, and Pye believes that. Bernardo's answer corresponds to the former usage in France, where to the common challenge Qui vive? Trench, Study of Words says, . But as all experience. And in this way 'rivals' came to be applied to. But the fact is that the older phrase was 'a liege lord,' and the. Give you good night, i. A piece of him, a bantering answer to Bernardo's surprise. Well, it looks like it.' Ingleby, Shakespeare Hermeneutics, p. Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, where the heroine ! If so, there must be more of her.'. But the German editor. Tschischwitz finds a deeper meaning. The quartos give this speech to. Horatio; and many editors follow them on the ground that. Marcellus would not use the contemptuous expression this thing. Grant White objects that. Horatio does not yet believe that the Ghost has appeared at all. And will.. him, and refuses to yield himself to belief. Steevens. quotes Ford, Fancies, Chaste and Noble, v. Tush, an exclamation of impatient incredulity; awhile. A. S. In keeping up the metaphor in assail and fortified (words, as Eltze points out, so appropriate in the mouth of a. Shakespeare treats the clause What .. Last night of all, only last night. In the same figure, in the same shape and dress. Thou art a scholar, the usual form of exorcism being in. Latin, a scholar would be required for the purpose; cp. Literally to over- run with an army. Steevens compares Comus, 5. It would be spoke to, it desires to be spoken to. For the conditional use of would in. Abb. Of what nature are you that. Denmark, the king of Denmark; the name of the country being frequently used by Shakespeare in this way, e. Before my God, I speak in the presence of my God and. Him to witness that, etc.: might, could; see Abb. Lat. Such, not necessarily the very armour, but armour closely. Good now, very well, then; or perhaps used as in W. Dared, challenged; in the sense of venturing to do a thing. Abb. For so, I say 'valiant,' for so he was accounted, etc.: this. Fortinbras, and this would have gone as. Fortinbras; would have passed into his possession. For return'd, involving no idea of going back, cp. Hamlet, in the same way that, by the agreement of which I have spoken, and the tenour of the stipulation formally drawn up between them, his possessions. Hamlet; for article, properly a particular clause in a. Dyce, following Gifford, gives 'uncensured,' 'unimpeached,' as the meaning of unimproved, and no doubt 'improve' was formerly used as = reprove; but Horatio is clearly disparaging Fortinbras, and while allowing him plenty of mettle, speaks of it as intemperate and untried. The construction. Johnson takes it, 'Full of unimproved mettle,' but '(a man) of unimproved mettle which is hot and full.'. Shark'd up, greedily swept up, as the shark voraciously sweeps up all prey that comes in its way: a list, a gang; literally, catalogue: lawless resolutes, wild- blooded young fellows ready for any enterprise however desperate and unjustifiable; for instances of inflected adjectives and participles, see Abb. For food and diet, merely for their keep, caring nothing. So, in the way I have already described: I take it, I understand. Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring; post- haste, literally, the haste made by a post or runner; romage, . Roomage is a similar formation to stowage, and means much the same thing. It is an old nautical term for the close packing of things in a ship; hence was formed the verb. Rome, when Rome was at its height of power and glory; the palm was an emblem of victory. In this corrupt passage various emendations and transpositions have been proposed, but probably a line, or more than one line, has dropped out. Malone suggests Astres, an old synonym for star, for As stars, and with this word. Brae thinks that. Disasters, in the sense of spots of darkness, spots on the sun's. Dict.): still, constantly: the fates, what was fated, destined, to happen. But soft, but hold, stop; said to himself as much as to. The fact is, rather, that la is. Some editors take the word. Horatio. I say 'show of violence,'for it, like. Hence it is. that in country places, where the way of life requires more early. Upon a fearful summons, immediately upon hearing a. Abb. 2. 7, and standard for 'standard- bearer,' Temp. Break we, see note on 1. Apparently a mixture of constructions between 'by. I am ready to stake my life upon the certainty of the spirit doing as I say. I pray, I strongly urge you. Hamlet, prince of Denmark. London: Macmillan, 1. How to cite the scene review questions: Mabillard, Amanda. Hamlet: Scene Questions for Review. Shakespeare Timeline Shakespeare's Reputation in Elizabethan England Words Shakespeare Invented Quotations About William Shakespeare Portraits of Shakespeare Shakespeare's Boss: The Master of Revels Top 1. Shakespeare Plays Shakespeare's Metaphors and Similes Shakespeare's Blank Verse Shakespeare Timeline Edward Alleyn (Actor) What is Tragic Irony? Characteristics of Elizabethan Tragedy. Scene Questions for Review. Describe the atmosphere in this opening scene. Why does it matter if Horatio is a scholar?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2017
Categories |