Silent Hamlet

"I am thy father's spirit / Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night / And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, / Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature / Are burnt and purg'd away."

"But that I am forbid / To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood"

Keywords: Shakespeare, Hamlet, Denmark, ghosts, castles

Ghost Scene (2:32)

Excerpt from Act I, Scene II with English intertitles.

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Closet Scene (3:58)

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