Thursday, February 9, 2012

Barnyard Hamlet

Scene 1
Barnardo: Who's there?
Francisco: I think I hear them.
Horatio: Friends to this ground
[Enter GHOST]
Barnardo: In the same figure like the king that's dead.
Horatio: Before my God, I might not believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
Marcellus: Thus twice before.
[Enter GHOST]
Horatio: Stay, illusion!
[The cock crows]
Barnardo: It was about to speak when the cock crew.

Scene 2
Claudius: We here dispatch You, good Cornelius, and you Voltemand, For bearers of this greeting to old norway.
Cornelius, Voltemand: In that and all things will we show our duty.
Laertes: Your leave and favor to return to France.
Hamlet: A little more than kin and less than kind.
Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Hamlet: I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
Horatio: Hail to your leadership
Hamlet: But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg
Horatio: My lord, I think I saw him yesternight
Marcellus, Barnardo: We do, my lord
Hamlet: I will watch tonight. Perchance 'Twill walk again

Barnardo - Cow
Francisco - Goat
Horatio - Sheep
Marcellus - Horse
Claudius - Pig
Cornelius, Voltemand - Rabbits
Hamlet - Dog
Laertes - Cat
Gertrude - Hen