Hamlet: In Class Exercises
1 Hamlet: In Class Exercises Contents Act 1 – Translation Act II - Paraphrase Act III - Lexicon & Summary Act IV - Textuality Act V - Interpretation and Theatricality 2 Act 1 - Translation Now for ourself, and for this time of meeting, Thus much the business is. We have here writ To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears Of this his nephew’s purpose—to suppress His further gait herein, in that the levies, The lists, and full proportions are all made Out of his subject; and we here dispatch You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand, For bearers of this greeting to old Norway, Giving to you no further personal power To business with the King more than the scope Of these dilated articles allow. Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty. 이제 우리 자신 , 그리고 미팅을 위한 시간이니 , 그 이야기는 충분한 것 같습니다 . 우리는 포틴브라스 왕자의 삼촌인 노르웨이 왕에게 보낼 친서를 썼습니다 ( 여기에 노르웨이 왕에게 보낼 친서가 있습니다 .). 그는 쇠약하고 외부출입을 하지 않아 그의 조카가 꾸미는 일을 듣지 못한 것 같습니다 . 포틴브라스 왕자가 국민으로부터 세금을 걷고 징병을 통해 인력과 자금을 확보하는 상황에서 , 그가 앞으로 하려는 일을 막기 위해서 우리는 지금 당신 Cornelius 와 Voltemand 를 노르웨이에 특파합니다 . 노르웨이 왕에게 친서를 전달하는 사람인 당신들에게 어떠한 추가적인 개인 권한을 부여하지 않으니 , 여기에 명시된 협약 범위를 넘어서는 업무를 노르웨이 왕과 하지 마시길 바랍니다 . 잘 가시고 , 주어진 업무를 신속히 하시기 바랍니다 . Act II - Paraphrase Fie upon’t, foh! About, my brains. Hum, I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactïons. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks. I’ll tent him to the quick. If ’a do blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be a de’il, and the de’il hath power T’assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds More relative than this. The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the
