笔记
Hamlet
Cambridge School Shakespeare
Act 1
Scene 2
标签（空格分隔）： 笔记 Hamlet
Claudius 向朝臣们宣布，他因其兄的死亡而悲痛；与嫂Gertrude结婚，又心怀喜悦。而后他将话题引向政治形势：年轻的Fortinbras正威胁丹麦。
The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle
Trumpet Call. [Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and his sister Ophelia, [Voltemand, Cornelius,] Lords Attendant.
Claudius. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,
Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, 220
Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
He hath not fail'd to pester us with message
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bands of law,
To our most valiant brother. So much for him. 225
Now for ourself and for this time of meeting.
Thus much the business is: we have here writ
To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,
- imperial jointress: joint ruler of the state
- auspicious: promising happiness
- dirge: sad song
- holing...worth: underestimating us
- importing: concerning
练习
有些评论认为C的长篇大论合情合理。他精心组织长句，表明他自信而坦诚。但是另一种评论认为这段演说反映了他的伪善。他流畅的演讲让人听起来这篇话是排练过的，全是虚伪。他不断地称呼自己为"we","us"，"our",表明他对自己王位的合法性感到紧张。用不同语气朗读这段台词并讨论感受：自信而大权在握的；虚假而诡诈的；诚实而真挚的。
此段还表现出此剧的另一个特点：反义词。（defeated vs. joy, mirth vs. funeral) 练习这部分，念到反义词时伴随动作。
C是否该亲吻G？why？ why not?