01-04-2020, 11:18 PM
The best way to evaluate this matter is to read the script. If this is indicative of an invasion of Denmark, someone please show me where it says so.
HAMLET
HAMLET
Quote:As thou'rt a man,OSRIC
Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't.
O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.
March afar off, and shot within
What warlike noise is this?
Quote:Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,HAMLET
To the ambassadors of England gives
This warlike volley.
Quote:O, I die, Horatio;HORATIO
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from England;
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;
So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
Dies
Quote:Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:PRINCE FORTINBRAS
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Why does the drum come hither?
March within
Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and others
Quote:Where is this sight?HORATIO
Quote:What is it ye would see?PRINCE FORTINBRAS
If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
Quote:This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,First Ambassador
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck?
Quote:The sight is dismal;HORATIO
And our affairs from England come too late:
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
Where should we have our thanks?
Quote:Not from his mouth,PRINCE FORTINBRAS
Had it the ability of life to thank you:
He never gave commandment for their death.
But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Are here arrived give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view;
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I
Truly deliver.
Quote:Let us haste to hear it,HORATIO
And call the noblest to the audience.
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
Quote:Of that I shall have also cause to speak,PRINCE FORTINBRAS
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more;
But let this same be presently perform'd,
Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance
On plots and errors, happen.
Quote:Let four captainshttp://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.5.2.html
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies: such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off

