Hamlet Act II, Scene II Soliloquy

We will recap and review Act II tomorrow.  For today, please take on the POV of Rosencrantz or Guildenstern and write a soliloquy that would relay his thoughts on the events of the play thus far at II.ii. 533.  Your soliloquy should be approximately 20 lines long.  Remember that Shakespeare aimed to keep his lines at approximately ten syllables.  You may write your soliloquy using modern language...no need for the thees, thous and thines!

Do your best and submit on your blogs before the end of the class at 12:15. This will count as a small weekly work grade.

Invited to Elsinore by King Claudius were we

From Wittenberg to visit Hamlet went we

Received kindly and with greetings,

To cheer Hamlet up the purpose of our visit was

Did not know we Hamlet had gone mad.

Hamlet we met at Elsinore and kind he was to us

Greeted us with genuine happiness

But the nature of our visit questioned.

To Hamlet we told the truth

And he seemed unfazed by it

Claiming this purpose he already knew

Since his Uncle worried about him was,

Confessed to us his motif for sadness

Saying his father’s grief still haunted him.

To us his plan Hamlet revealed

That his uncle and mom deceived were by him.

Proceeded him to invite us to at Elsinore stay

Accepted we to stay and attend a show

By a theatrical troupe that arriving was.

Gladly the offer accepted we

Interested to see the unfolding of this plan.