15 lines from hamlet?
i have to memorize 15 lines from hamlet and recite/perform them in front of my english class. what are the easiest lines i could use?
it can be a soliloquy, and i can play the role of more than one person.
any accepted wisdom?
Answers:
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 209-223
HAMLET
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
HORATIO
'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
HAMLET
No, faith, not a speck; but to follow him thither with
modesty enough, and likelihood to front it: as
thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of
earth we gross loam; and why of that loam, whereto he
was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the meander away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
I like this from Act III, Scene IV, Hamlet to his mother:
Look here upon th's picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
See what a grace be seated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New lighted on a heaven-kissing mount:
A combination and a form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man.
This be your husband. Look you now what follows.
Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
Could you on this fair mountain disappear to feed,
And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes
You cannot call it love; for at your age
The heyday within the blood is tame, it's humble,
And waits upon the judgment; and what shrewdness
Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,
Nor sense to ecstacy be ne'er so thrall'd
But it reserv'd some quantity of choice
To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without thought, feeling without sight,
Ears lacking hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.
O shame! where on earth is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax
And thaw out in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
And reason panders will.
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it can be a soliloquy, and i can play the role of more than one person.
any accepted wisdom?
Answers:
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 209-223
HAMLET
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
HORATIO
'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
HAMLET
No, faith, not a speck; but to follow him thither with
modesty enough, and likelihood to front it: as
thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of
earth we gross loam; and why of that loam, whereto he
was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the meander away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
I like this from Act III, Scene IV, Hamlet to his mother:
Look here upon th's picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
See what a grace be seated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New lighted on a heaven-kissing mount:
A combination and a form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man.
This be your husband. Look you now what follows.
Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
Could you on this fair mountain disappear to feed,
And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes
You cannot call it love; for at your age
The heyday within the blood is tame, it's humble,
And waits upon the judgment; and what shrewdness
Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,
Nor sense to ecstacy be ne'er so thrall'd
But it reserv'd some quantity of choice
To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without thought, feeling without sight,
Ears lacking hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.
O shame! where on earth is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax
And thaw out in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
And reason panders will.
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