{"id":5766,"date":"2018-02-28T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5766"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:48:05","slug":"hamlet-act-ii-scene-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5766","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet: Act II, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamlet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 2, Scene 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hamlet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This text is used in our <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=5760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Michael Urie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>318\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have of late&#8211;but<\/span><br \/>\n319\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wherefore I know not&#8211;lost all my mirth, forgone all<\/span><br \/>\n320\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily<\/span><br \/>\n321\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with my disposition that this goodly frame, the<\/span><br \/>\n322\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most<\/span><br \/>\n323\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave<\/span><br \/>\n324\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o&#8217;erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted<\/span><br \/>\n325\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to<\/span><br \/>\n326\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.<\/span><br \/>\n327\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!<\/span><br \/>\n328\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how<\/span><br \/>\n329\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">express and admirable! in action how like an angel!<\/span><br \/>\n330\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the<\/span><br \/>\n331\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,<\/span><br \/>\n332\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not<\/span><br \/>\n333\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling<\/span><br \/>\n334\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you seem to say so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here for the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Folio Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamlet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 2, Scene 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hamlet This text is used in our interview with Michael Urie 318\u00a0 \u00a0I have of late&#8211;but 319\u00a0 \u00a0wherefore I know not&#8211;lost all my mirth, forgone all 320\u00a0 \u00a0custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily 321\u00a0 \u00a0with my disposition that this goodly frame, the 322\u00a0 \u00a0earth, seems to me a<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5766' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-5766","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-1v0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5766\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}