Shakespeare in Delaware Park has concluded its thirtieth season with Hamlet. The production was directed by Saul Elkin, the company's founder. Photos by Lawrence Rowswell.
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HORATIO, BARNARDO & MARCELLUS
"Is it not like the king?"
"As thou art to thyself"
""Tis here!" "'Tis here!" "'Tis gone!"
"It was about to speak when the cock crew."
GERTRUDE
"Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet, I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenburg."
HAMLET
"O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew.."
POLONIUS, LAERTES & OPHELIA
"And these few precepts in thy memory look thou character: give thy thoughts no toung, nor any unproportioned thought his act; be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; those frends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, but do nt dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged courage..."
THE GHOST
"If thou ever did'st thy dear father love--revenge his foul and most unnatural murder...the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown...adieu, adieu, adieu, remember me."
"Swear by my sword, never to speak of this that thou hast heard."
"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?...I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play have by the very cunning of the scene been strck to the soul, that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions...the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king!"
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their currents turn awry and lose the name of action."
HAMLET & CLAUDIUS
"Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a praying--and now I'll do it, and so a goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. That would be scanned..."
"Look here upon this picture and on this, the counterfiet presentment of two brothers, see what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's curls--the front of Jove himself...this was your husband--look you now what follows..."
FORTINBRAS
"Go captain from me greet the Danish king..."
LAERTES ON SEEING OPHELIA'S MADNESS
"Had'st thou thy wits, and did'st persuade revenge, It could not move thus."
THE PLOT
"Will you be ruled by me?"
"Aye my lord, so you will not o'errule me to a peace."
THE GRAVEDIGGERS
"Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she willingly seeks her own salvation?"
OSRIC
"Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his majesty..."