WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
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If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me;
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to the country's fate,
Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life,
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
Speak of it;
(Act One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)
The speaker's mood is
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me:
If thou art privy to the country's fate,
Which happily foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life,
Extorted treasure in the womb of the earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
Speak of ur:
(Act 1; Scene 1, Lines 128-139)
During this speech
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
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It is here,......thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,
(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)
The speaker is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
It is here,......thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,
(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)
The queen has just
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
It is here,......thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,
(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)
The character being addressed is
