Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.
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King Claudius: How fares our cousin Hamlet?
Hamlet: Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.
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Hamlet: Oh, throw away the worser part of it,
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A final house stands at this hamlet's site (In diesem Dorfe steht das letzte Haus)
A final house stands at this hamlet's site,
as lonesome as the final house on earth.
The road, unhindered by the hamlet's girth
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its walk along the houses mere relay.
And those that leave the hamlet wander wide
and many die perhaps along the way.
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Hamlet: The time is out of joint. O, cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
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Polonius: My honourable Lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, Sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal, except my life, my life.
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Hamlet: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.
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Hamlet: Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what
replication should be made by the son of a king?
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Hamlet: God's bodykins, man, much better. Use every man
after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
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Hamlet: It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o’er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
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Hamlet: I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself.
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Hamlet: The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: These indeed seem, for they are actions that a man might play. But I have that within which passeth show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe.
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Hamlet: It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
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