Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: Anonymous
Editor: David Bevington
Not Peer Reviewed

Der bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Punished)

Corambus.
Corambus
News, news! my lord! The actors have come.
Hamlet
When Marus Russig was an actor in Rome, what times those were!
Corambus
Ha, ha, ha, how Your Highness always teases me!
215Hamlet
O! Jephthah, Jephthah! what a fair daughter hast thou!
Corambus
Why, my lord, you are always harping on my daughter.
Hamlet
Well, well, old man, let the master of the actors come in.
Corambus
I will, my lord.
[Exit.]
220Hamlet
These actors come in the nick of time, for through them I shall prove whether the ghost told me the truth or not. Once I saw a tragedy wherein one brother murders the other in the garden; this shall they act. And if the King turns pale, then he has done what the ghost told me.