SHAKESPEARE

HAMLET

MAGAZINE

Mitzi Maldonado

1/1/2011

*ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HAMLET AND COMPANY*

Denmark’s has died, though the cause is unknown, and his has affected everyone very much so that it has been said that King Hamlet’s spirit wanders restlessly over his land. We have been able to get a statement from two witnesses.

•Marcellus: “Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio… it stalks away!”

•Horatio: “Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee speak!”

“… Our last King, whose image even but now appears to us.” Were Horatio’s last words to our reporter.

•Though sadly our King’s spirit had no words for our friends Horatio and Marcellus

Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo were the first to see the ghost of King Hamlet! Bernardo was too shocked and could not respond to our questions.

DRAMA ALERT!!!!!!

Hamlet’s view on his mother’s wedding to his own uncle!!

•Hamlet: “That it should come to this! But two months dead –nay not so much, not two! Within a month, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!”

•Hamlet towards the new king, Claudius: “A little more than kin, and less than kind!”

Insider Note: Hamlet likes to dye his hair occasionally

and sometimes gets bored of having a mustache!

WHAT ARE POLONIUS’S AND LAERTES’S THOUGHTS ABOUT OPHELIA & HAMLET’S RELATIONSHIP??

POLONIUS:

“Affection? Pooh! You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders(offers), as you call them? In few, Ophelia, do not believe his vows. I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.”

•Ophelia: “I shall obey, my lord.”

LAERTES:

“Perhaps he loves you now, the virtue of his will; but you must fear, his greatness weighed, his will is not his own. Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, … Be wary then; best safety lies in fear. Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

•Ophelia: “I shall the effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads…”

Ophelia’s Corner

Our dear Ophelia is no more… she was found drowned in the river, alone.

In request to our Queen, Ophelia was given a proper burial.

Though it must be asked, why was our sweet Ophelia found dead??

Could it have been her father forbidding her from seeing Hamlet?? Or Hamlet misunderstanding her way of meeting him and Hamlet breaking up with her??

Hamlet’s Corner Hamlet’s view on life: “To be, or not to be, that is the question; whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die-to sleep. To sleep-perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. There’s the respect that makes calamity of so ling life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death-the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveler returns-puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action.-Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! –Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins rememb’red.

How Hamlet feels about his

father’s death…

“Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.”

Q:Who would Hamlet strike for achieve the revenge he promised to his father??

A: The new king, Claudius?? His own mother, Queen Gertrude??

There have been suspicions that the young Fortinbras has been planning a secret army in hopes of overthrowing Denmark.

STATEMENT FROM KING CLAUDIUS:

“Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, holding a weak supposal of our worth, or thinking by our late dear brother’s death our state to be disjoint and out of frame, colleague with this dream of his advantage, he hath not failed to pester us with message importing the surrender of those lands lost by his father, with all bands of law, to our most valiant brother.”

Q: What will be your response to young Fortinbras, my dear lord??

A: “To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras, who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears of this his nephew’s purpose, to suppress his further gait herein, in that the levies, the lists, and full proportions are all made out of his subject; and we here dispatch you, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand, for bearers of this greeting to old Norway…”

The Mousetrap

King Claudius’s opinion of the play Mousetrap: “Is there no offense in’t? Give me some light!

Away!”

The play, Mousetrap, was executed exceptionally well, which was partially modified by our own, Hamlet.

Queen Gertrude’s opinion of her son’s, Hamlet’s, modified

version of Mousetrap: “The lady doth protest too

much, methinks.”

Polonius is Dead!! AND HAMLET IS THE MURDERED!!

Though it is known that Hamlet is Polonius’s murder, he refused to reveal the location of his body. Even though Polonius has died, it is not truly a sad feeling that comes upon the audience.

Hamlet: “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!

Fencing

Claudius uses Laertes in order to fulfill his own mission of killing off Hamlet. Claudius just fuels Laertes’ need for revenge since Hamlet killed his father and he may be the cause of Ophelia’s death.

The Deaths!! Gertrude: “Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows. The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.”

The Queen tells Hamlet to rest for a little bit, but he refuses. So Gertrude drinks in his honor, though it is the poisoned cup! And Dies!!

Hamlet kills Claudius by stabbing him with the poisoned sword and making him drink the cup of poison!!

The End </3