{"id":2994,"date":"2013-09-09T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:33:00","slug":"hamlet-act-i-scene-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamlet<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Act I, Scene ii\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamlet \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This text is featured in our\u00a0<a title=\"Lisa Wolpe\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=2964\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Lisa Wolpe<\/a>. \u00a0And <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=4902\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Pacheco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here\u00a0to <a title=\"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii \u2013 First Folio\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2998\" target=\"_blank\">open up a First Folio version<\/a> in a new window to compare texts.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0 O, that this too too solid flesh would melt<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Or that the Everlasting had not fix&#8217;d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 His canon &#8216;gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Seem to me all the uses of this world!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Fie on&#8217;t! ah fie! &#8217;tis an unweeded garden,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Possess it merely. That it should come to this!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 So excellent a king; that was, to this,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 As if increase of appetite had grown<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 By what it fed on: and yet, within a month &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Let me not think on&#8217;t &#8212; Frailty, thy name is woman! &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 A little month, or ere those shoes were old<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 With which she follow&#8217;d my poor father&#8217;s body,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Like Niobe, all tears: &#8212; why she, even she &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Would have mourn&#8217;d longer&#8211;married with my uncle,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 My father&#8217;s brother, but no more like my father<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Than I to Hercules: within a month:<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 She married. O, most wicked speed, to post<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 It is not nor it cannot come to good:<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamlet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Act I, Scene ii\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamlet \u00a0 This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Lisa Wolpe. \u00a0And Xavier Pacheco. Click here\u00a0to open up a First Folio version in a new window to compare texts. \u00a0 O, that this too too solid flesh would melt \u00a0 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! \u00a0 Or that the<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2994","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-Mi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2994\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}