We Shall Not Soon See the Likes of Him Again
Hamlet: Act 3, Scene ii Translation
A side-by-side translation of Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet from the original Shakespeare into modern English.
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| Source: Folger Shakespeare Library | |
| Enter Hamlet and three of the Players. Hamlet Speak the speech, I pray y'all, every bit I pronounced PLAYER I warrant your Honor. HAMLET Be non too tame neither, but let your own Histrion I hope nosotros take reformed that indifferently | Hamlet, in manager mode, tells the actors how he wants them to perform the play. He'd like it to come up off naturally, which means they shouldn't be too loud, or gesticulate (make gestures) likewise much, as bad actors ofttimes practise. Instead, they should use their discretion to build up suspense with their actions. Annotation that Hamlet gives directions as though he has some familiarity with acting himself... Hmm. |
| HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And permit those that play forty Players exit. Enter Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz. How now, my lord, will the King hear this piece of POLONIUS And the Queen too, and that presently. fifty Hamlet Bid the players make haste. Polonius exits. ROSENCRANTZ Ay, my lord. They exit. | Village gives the players one last piece of advice: don't be tempted to become a cheap express mirth, since the audience's laughter might drown out the of import parts. With that, he sends the players off to become set, so tells Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern to proceed them on schedule. It'due south offset! |
| Hamlet What ho, Horatio! Enter Horatio. HORATIO Here, sugariness lord, at your service. 55 HAMLET HORATIO HAMLET Nay, practise not think I flatter, HORATIO Well, my lord. Sound a flourish. Village They are coming to the play. I must be idle. | As anybody gets settled, Hamlet pulls Horatio aside, and says he's amidst the best men that Hamlet has had the fortune of knowing, and BTW he needs a favor: he needs him to sentinel Claudius' reactions to the play, especially during the scene that reenacts the killing of the Rex in exactly the style Claudius would've killed King Hamlet. Together, they can figure out whether Claudius actually did kill Male monarch Hamlet. Sure, says Horatio, and and so it's fourth dimension for Village to run off and act like a crazy duck again. |
| Enter Trumpets and Kettle Drums. Enter King, Queen, KING How fares our cousin Hamlet? HAMLET Excellent, i' organized religion, of the chameleon's dish. I Male monarch I accept nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These | Equally Claudius settles in, he asks Hamlet how he's doing. Hamlet says he eats too as a chameleon (creatures that were idea to alive on a diet of air). In saying this, Hamlet is punning on air/heir, since he was (and remains) heir to the throne. He so says you can't feed capons that mode.Huh? Yeah, nosotros know. There's a lot packed into this little commutation. Comport with us. A capon is a male chicken that is castrated when it'due south immature and then fattened up to be eaten. Hamlet is suggesting that Claudius thinks he's "castrated" Village, making him less than a human being, which, well...he kind of did past killing his father and stealing his right to the throne by marrying his mother. But Hamlet is telling him he hasn't succeeded, sort of. He'southward and so ambiguous that Claudius doesn't get it, just so, that seems to be Hamlet's m.o. |
| Village No, nor mine now. To Polonius. My lord, you POLONIUS That did I, my lord, and was deemed a HAMLET What did you enact? POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i' thursday' HAMLET Information technology was a animal part of him to kill and so upper-case letter a ROSENCRANTZ Ay, my lord. They stay upon your QUEEN Come here, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. 115 Village No, good mother. Here'southward metal more POLONIUS, to the King Oh, ho! Do you mark that? | After brutalizing Claudius, Hamlet moves on to Polonius and Ophelia. This should be a fun afternoon. First he winds upwards Polonius when he says he wants to sit next Ophelia instead of his mom. |
| HAMLET Lady, shall I prevarication in your lap? OPHELIA No, my lord. 120 HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap? OPHELIA Ay, my lord. HAMLET Do you recall I meant land matters? OPHELIA I remember nothing, my lord. Hamlet That's a fair thought to lie between maids' 125 OPHELIA What is, my lord? HAMLET Nothing. OPHELIA Y'all are merry, my lord. Village Who, I? 130 OPHELIA Ay, my lord. | Hamlet starts flirting with—well, really harassing—Ophelia, asking if he tin can lie in her lap, and making dingy puns on the word "nothing," which is Elizabethan slang for "vagina." Anyway, Ophelia tactfully demurs, telling Village he seems pretty upbeat. |
| Village O God, your merely jig-maker. What should a OPHELIA Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord. Village So long? Nay, then, let the devil vesture black, | Hamlet quips that at that place'southward no way he could exist unhappy. After all, his dad's only been dead two hours, and his mom seems quite happy. Ophelia points out that, actually, information technology'south been four months. Hamlet says, "Wow, you mean someone can die and not be forgotten after two months? That'due south astonishing." Of course, if a man really wants to be remembered for say, 6 months, Hamlet says he'd have to build churches or chance beingness forgotten similar the hobby-equus caballus. This is Shakespeare's ain playful reference to the fact that regular Elizabethan village people were pretty bummed out by the puritanical suppression of sports at infidel festivals, which oftentimes had fun stuff like costumed horses and dancing. |
| The trumpets sounds. Dumb show follows. Enter a Male monarch and a Queen, very lovingly, the Queen 145 Players exit. OPHELIA What means this, my lord? Village Marry, this is miching mallecho. It means OPHELIA Belike this show imports the statement of the 160 Enter Prologue. Village Nosotros shall know by this boyfriend. The players OPHELIA Will he tell us what this show meant? HAMLET Ay, or whatsoever show that you will evidence him. Exist 165 OPHELIA Y'all are naught, you are goose egg. I'll marking the | Okay, now it's really time for the show. The play the actors perform is a variant of "The Murder of Gonzago." It starts with a "impaired show," in which the players silently human action out the major action of the play. Personally, we call back this role should be proceeded past a major spoiler alert. |
| PROLOGUE Hamlet Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring? OPHELIA 'Tis brief, my lord. HAMLET As woman'southward dearest. 175 Enter the Player King and Queen. Player Rex PLAYER QUEEN Role player KING PLAYER QUEEN O, confound the rest! 200 HAMLET That'south wormwood! Actor QUEEN | The spoken part of the play starts with a very short prologue—as brief as a woman'due south dearest, according to Hamlet. So two players enter equally a Male monarch and Queen. The Rex is talking about how one day, when he's gone, his married woman will remarry, but she insists she won't. She says that a woman only remarries when she'southward been involved in killing off her first husband. So she adds that she would be killing her starting time hubby a 2nd fourth dimension by kissing her second husband. (Um...we think we've located some of the lines Hamlet had added to the play.) |
| Actor KING PLAYER QUEEN HAMLET If she should break it now! PLAYER King PLAYER QUEEN Sleep rock thy brain, Actor Queen exits. | The King in the play says he'due south certain she believes that to be true now, just she might discover that she feels differently once he's dead. The Queen tells him he's wrong. She'll never ever ever ever always remarry. Ever. The Rex says okay, and tells her to get out him exist. He's going to have a nap. |
| HAMLET Madam, how like you this play? QUEEN The lady doth protest too much, methinks. HAMLET O, but she'll keep her word. 255 Rex Have you heard the argument? Is there no HAMLET No, no, they do only jest, toxicant in jest. No KING What exercise you telephone call the play? 260 HAMLET "The Mousetrap." Marry, how? Tropically. Enter Lucianus. This is i Lucianus, nephew to the king. OPHELIA Yous are as good as a chorus, my lord. HAMLET I could translate betwixt you and your love, 270 OPHELIA You are keen, my lord, you are keen. HAMLET It would cost you lot a groaning to take off mine OPHELIA All the same better and worse. 275 HAMLET So yous mis-accept your husbands.—Begin, | All of this insistence past the Player Queen about how incorrect information technology would be to remarry if her husband died is is obviously offensive to Gertrude, but she still keeps her cool. When Hamlet asks how she likes the play, she says, "The lady doth protest as well much, methinks." Hamlet says the play, called "The Mouse-Trap," is a wicked slice of work, simply wouldn't bother anybody with a clean conscience. He then engages in some more sexual innuendo with Ophelia as the side by side scene begins. |
| LUCIANUS HAMLET He poisons him i' thursday' garden for his manor. His Claudius rises. OPHELIA The Male monarch rises. Village What, frighted with false fire? QUEEN How fares my lord? POLONIUS Give o'er the play. Rex Give me some light. Away! 295 POLONIUS Lights, lights, lights! All but Hamlet and Horatio leave. | Here come up the fireworks. The husband/King is taking a nap when his nephew sneaks in and pours poison in his ear—exactly what Claudius did to Hamlet's father. Seeing this, King Claudius gets out of his seat and rushes out of the room. Sold! Hamlet has proved Claudius' guilt—to himself. |
| Village HORATIO Half a share. 305 Hamlet A whole one, I. HORATIO You might have rhymed. Village O skillful Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for HORATIO Very well, my lord. Hamlet Upon the talk of the poisoning? 315 HORATIO I did very well note him. Village Ah ha! Come, some music! Come, the | Left alone with Horatio, Hamlet gloats about his brilliant performance. Yep, his brilliant performance. He thinks he did a great job shepherding this whole play through—so great, he deserves a place in the theater. And the ghost must take been telling the truth! Clearly, the King freaked when they got to the part about the poison, which ways he's guilty. Correct? Hamlet'southward ready to celebrate with some music. |
| Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, vouchsafe me a discussion Hamlet Sir, a whole history. GUILDENSTERN The King, sir— 325 HAMLET Ay, sir, what of him? GUILDENSTERN Is in his retirement marvelous HAMLET With potable, sir? GUILDENSTERN No, my lord, with choler. 330 Village Your wisdom should show itself more richer GUILDENSTERN Proficient my lord, put your discourse into 335 Hamlet I am tame, sir. Pronounce. GUILDENSTERN The Queen your mother, in virtually great HAMLET You are welcome. GUILDENSTERN Nay, skillful my lord, this courtesy is not HAMLET Sir, I cannot. ROSENCRANTZ What, my lord? Hamlet Make you a wholesome answer. My wit'southward ROSENCRANTZ Then thus she says: your behavior hath | But in come Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to impale his mood. Guildenstern starts off by letting Hamlet know the King is very aroused. So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz relay the message that Gertrude has been greatly upset by Hamlet's behavior. |
| Village O wonderful son that tin can so 'stonish a mother! | Ha! That'southward rich, Village says. My behavior has astonished her? What else did she say? |
| ROSENCRANTZ She desires to speak with you in her Village Nosotros shall obey, were she x times our mother. ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you once did love me. HAMLET And practise withal, by these pickers and stealers. ROSENCRANTZ Skillful my lord, what is your cause of 365 HAMLET Sir, I lack advancement. ROSENCRANTZ How can that exist, when you lot have the HAMLET Ay, sir, but "While the grass grows"—the Enter the Players with recorders. O, the recorders! Allow me encounter one. He takes a GUILDENSTERN O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my Hamlet I do not well understand that. Will you play 380 GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot. Hamlet I pray you. GUILDENSTERN Believe me, I cannot. Village I practise beseech you. 385 GUILDENSTERN I know no touch of it, my lord. Hamlet It is every bit easy as lying. Govern these ventages GUILDENSTERN Merely these cannot I control to whatever HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a matter Enter Polonius. God anoint you lot, sir. | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Hamlet his mom wants to talk to him, and Hamlet says fine. Is that all? He'southward dismissing them, and they act offended. Aren't they friends? Why is he treating them this way. Village accuses them of trying to manipulate him, and then acts insulted when they say they can't play the musicians'south recorders because they don't know how. Well and so, he says, why accept you been trying to play me? Do you think I'k simpler than a recorder? (He's pretty clever the style he backs them into that corner.) |
| POLONIUS My lord, the Queen would speak with you, HAMLET Do you lot see yonder cloud that's well-nigh in POLONIUS By th' Mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. Village Methinks information technology is similar a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. 410 HAMLET Or like a whale. POLONIUS Very like a whale. Village Then I will come up to my mother past and past. POLONIUS I volition say so. | Adjacent, Polonius comes in and tells him to go see his female parent. Hamlet takes Polonius through a little practise in which Hamlet pretends to see a cloud that looks similar a camel—oh, wait, actually it looks similar a weasel. Make that a whale. Polonius agrees with him at every turn, conspicuously merely trying to placate Hamlet, who'south doing a good job of interim crazy. Hamlet says he'll become see his mother...somewhen. |
| Hamlet "By and by" is easily said. Get out me, He exits. | Finally, Hamlet dismisses anybody to have a little soliloquy almost what's going on in the dark corners of his listen. It'southward nighttime, and Hamlet's feeling then good and cruel he could drink blood, simply he's a piddling worried: he hopes that his business firm bust won't ever give fashion to the soul of Nero, a Roman emperor who killed his own female parent. (Retrieve, the ghost told him non to carry out whatsoever concrete penalisation against his mother.) Hamlet says he'll speak daggers to her, but not use whatever on her. |
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