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Hamlet, Act 1, Scene IV

Feb 25, 2008 16:59

Previous posts:
Act 1, Scene I: The Crazy Occult Forays of Marcellus and Horatio.
Act 1, Scene II: Claudius is the villain, but he's still hotter than you.
Act 1, Scene III: Ophelia's virginity is a national treasure. Just ask her dad and brother.

( Act 1, Scene IV: That a ghoooooooooost? )

shakespeare, reading: hamlet

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Just want to point out... anonymous February 26 2008, 02:17:59 UTC

HAMLET
What hour now?

HORATIO
I think it lacks of twelve.

HAMLET
No, it is struck.

"No, it is struck" is Marcellus's line and not Hamlet's

Re: Just want to point out... cesario February 26 2008, 02:24:44 UTC

Hmm. That's irritating---they must have transcribed it wrong on the website. Thanks for the note, mysterious stranger.

Re: Just want to point out... corbistheca February 26 2008, 02:51:22 UTC

It's Marcellus's line in my text too -- Arden Complete Works. Though apparently not in the Online Lit version. One of those printing discrepancies between editions that may be traceable to different early versions of the play in which characters were portrayed in slightly variant ways, perhaps? The words didn't go directly from W.S.'s head to Quarto to Folio, after all -- there were a few years of performances in there in between. If I were the sort of person who did textual research, I'd know how to find out more about this particular line attribution... unfortunately, I'm not, and the person I know who might know happens to be knee-deep in rehearsals for Much Ado.

I'm pretty much with infiniteviking on the temperance speech. This is "I hate Claudius" railing that gets out of hand and "incidentally" pulls out this idea of a mole of nature/stamp of one defect/dram of eale (which in my text is spelled "evil") that's there from the get-go but by their actions/habits/attitudes spreads and corrupts everything -- like a rotten spot in the center of a ( ... )

Re: Just want to point out... kerrypolka February 26 2008, 14:24:16 UTC

I believe it's Marcellus in the Folio, although I'm sure it's Horatio in at least one of the quartos because the Hamlet quartos are all over the place. Q1's probably given it to, like, Osric.

Worth noting that the Giant Monologue of Drunken Danes and WTF? is cut to about seven lines, which I think most textual folk ascribe to James I's being married to Anna of Denmark (and nobody wanting to go "so hey, our queen's countrymen sure are notoriously sloshed, eh?").

Re: Just want to point out... prof_pangaea February 27 2008, 17:05:59 UTC

Q1's probably given it to, like, Osric.

hee.

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