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 Setting the Stage: Acts & Scenes  Dramatis Personae: Characters and Dramas  Reading a Ghost: Daemonologie and Hamlet I, i

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Act, Scene, Line V, ii, 44 5.2.44

I II III IV V Dramatis Personae: Characters and Dramas James I was King of England after the death of Elizabeth – but before that he was a famous religious philosopher who wrote extensively about theology. His most famous book, Daemonologie, published in 1597, discussed the nature and reality of the spirit world. The book takes the form of a dialogue between Philomathes, a student seeking knowledge, and his teacher Epistemon. From James I, Daemonologie, 1597

PHI. But where these spirites hauntes and troubles anie houses, what is the best waie to banishe them? EPI. By two meanes may onelie the remeid of such things be procured: The one is ardent prayer to God, both of these persones that are troubled with them, and of that Church whereof they are. The other is the purging of themselves by amendement of life from such sinnes, as have procured that extraordinare plague. PHI. And what meanes then these kindes of spirites, when they appeare in the shaddow of a person newlie dead, or to die, to his friends? EPI. When they appeare upon that occasion, they are called Wraithes in our language. Amongst the Gentiles the Devill used that much, to make them beleeve that it was some good spirite that appeared to them then, ether to forewarne them of the death of their friend; or else to discover unto them, the will of the defunct, or what was the say of his slauchter, as is written in the booke of the histories Prodigious. And this way hee easelie deceived the Gentiles, because they knew not God: And to that same effect is it, that he now appeares in that maner to some ignorant Christians. For he dare not so illude anie that knoweth that, neither can the spirite of the defunct returne to his friend, or yet an Angell use such formes. I i ll. 85-110: HORATIO on why Denmark is so “on edge” with armed guards, etc:

Our last king, Whose image even but now appear'd to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet-- For so this side of our known world esteem'd him-- Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror: Against the which, a moiety competent Was gaged by our king; which had return'd To the inheritance of Fortinbras, Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant, And carriage of the article design'd, His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, Of unimproved mettle hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, For food and diet, to some enterprise That hath a stomach in't; which is no other-- As it doth well appear unto our state-- But to recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands So by his father lost: and this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations…. I i ll. 117-30: HORATIO discussing why the Ghost of king Hamlet is walking about: A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. And even the like precurse of feared events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen. Freewrite 100 words: Why do Ghosts appear to us?

Integrate, quote and cite from James’ Daemonologie and/or Horatio’s speech in Hamlet (I i 117-130).

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ONLY HALF CREDIT UNLESS PROPERLY INTEGRATED, FORMATTED, CITED I ii ll. 76-86: HAMLET answering his mother Gertrude’s charge that he “seems” sad:

Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. HAMLET (I, ii, 130 ff) O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. HORATIO Hail to your lordship! HAMLET I am glad to see you well: Horatio,--or I do forget myself. HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. HAMLET Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?

“Words, Words, Words” from Hamlet, Act I

I ii ll. 175-188: After Hamlet’s soliloquy, Horatio enters, and the two discuss events.

HAMLET We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. HAMLET I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother's wedding. HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! My father!--methinks I see my father. HORATIO Where, my lord? HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio. HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king. HAMLET He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo agree to meet that night to watch for the ghost again.

I iii ll. 78-80: After Laertes tells Ophelia to avoid Hamlet, Ophelia tells Laertes not to misbehave in France, then Polonius gives his son Laertes a “few precepts” to remember; the most famous:

This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

I iv ll. 69-74: After the ghost appears, Horatio warns Hamlet against trusting the Ghost: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? Think of it. I v ll. 60-81: GHOST gives Hamlet a description of his death:

Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head: O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!

I v 106-109: HAMLET after speaking with the Ghost:

O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

I v 170 ff: Hamlet rejoins his friends, says it was “an honest ghost,” and swears them to secrecy.

HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! (170) HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on, That you, at such times seeing me, never shall … (178) Note that you know aught of me ….(184) The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, (194) That ever I was born to set it right! (195) Freewrite 100 words on SOMETHING, quoting from today’s reading of Hamlet. This counts as a Reading Journal entry; you need 100 words of reflection, plus the quote. Make the quoted matter part of your freewrite:  format quote (long/short) by lines;  integrate quoted matter (According to …, “…”)  cite by act, scene, line (I, i, 1)

TURN IN TODAY:  Opening Freewrite: Daemonology  Text and notes: Hamlet I ii-v  Closing Freewrite: Quoting Hamlet