{"id":4948,"date":"2016-01-28T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4948"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:31:32","slug":"hamlet-act-i-scene-ii-xavier-pacheco-version","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4948","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii: Xavier Pacheco Version"},"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 href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=4902\">interview with 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<p>Click here to open an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994\">unedited modern version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3002\">scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0O, that this too too solid flesh would melt<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Thaw 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>\u00a0Seem to me all the uses of this world!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Fie on&#8217;t! ah fie! &#8217;tis an unweeded garden,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Possess it merely. &#8212; Frailty, thy name is woman! &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A little month, or ere those shoes were old<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0With which she follow&#8217;d my poor father&#8217;s body,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Like Niobe, all tears: &#8212; why she, even she &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Would have mourn&#8217;d longer&#8211;married with my uncle,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0My father&#8217;s brother, but no more like my father<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Than I to Hercules: within a month:<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0She married. O, most wicked speed, to post<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It is not nor it cannot come to good:<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0But 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 Xavier Pacheco. Click here\u00a0to open up a First Folio version in a new window to compare texts. Click here to open an unedited modern version. Click here for a scanned version. \u00a0O, that this too too solid flesh would melt \u00a0Thaw and<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4948' 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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4948","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-1hO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4948","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=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4948\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}