筆記
Hamlet
Cambridge School Shakespeare
Act 1
Scene 2
標簽（空格分隔）： 筆記 Hamlet
Claudius 向朝臣們宣布，他因其兄的死亡而悲痛；與嫂Gertrude結婚，又心懷喜悅。而后他將話題引向政治形勢：年輕的Fortinbras正威脅丹麥。
The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle
Trumpet Call. [Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and his sister Ophelia, [Voltemand, Cornelius,] Lords Attendant.
Claudius. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,
Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
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, 220
Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
He hath not fail'd 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. So much for him. 225
Now for ourself and for this time of meeting.
Thus much the business is: we have here writ
To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,
- imperial jointress: joint ruler of the state
- auspicious: promising happiness
- dirge: sad song
- holing...worth: underestimating us
- importing: concerning
練習
有些評論認為C的長篇大論合情合理。他精心組織長句，表明他自信而坦誠。但是另一種評論認為這段演說反映了他的偽善。他流暢的演講讓人聽起來這篇話是排練過的，全是虛偽。他不斷地稱呼自己為"we","us"，"our",表明他對自己王位的合法性感到緊張。用不同語氣朗讀這段臺詞并討論感受：自信而大權在握的；虛假而詭詐的；誠實而真摯的。
此段還表現出此劇的另一個特點：反義詞。（defeated vs. joy, mirth vs. funeral) 練習這部分，念到反義詞時伴隨動作。
C是否該親吻G？why？ why not?
