[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[♫ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
♪ Aaa aa-aa aaa ♪
♪ Aaa-aaa aaa aaa-aaa ♪
You may think you know my story.
Many have told it.
It has long passed into history… into myth.
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that ♪ ♪ the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth ♪ ♪ to be a liar ♪
♪ But never… ♪
I have seen more of heaven and hell than most people dream of.
♪ That the stars are fire ♪
But I was always a willful girl
and followed my heart and spoke my mind.
And it is high time
I should tell you my story myself.
Mind out below!
♪ Doubt that ♪ ♪ the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
Ophelia. Careful.
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪ Doubt that the sun… ♪
Is that mouse in your pocket again?
- Be quiet! - Laertes, I'm coming with you!
Don't!
- Go back, Ophelia! - But think of all the books!
So, students as well. Very sweet.
I'll teach you later.
Hush now, make ready for your studies.
[DOOR CREAKS]
[LAUGHTER]
- Watch out for dragons! - Dragons?
It's a shortcut.
Brace of rabbits for skinning.
- Ooh, little rascal! - Oi!
Ophelia!
[PEOPLE LAUGHING]
- Don't! - Leave me. I want to see.
[PEOPLE LAUGHING]
[WOMAN LAUGHING]
To Prince Hamlet!
Leaving us for the great University of Wittenberg.
Fifteen years old today.
Little more than a boy, little less than a man.
He insults the prince?
That's his uncle, the king's brother.
Apple of his mother's eye.
Of course, it was an apple that tempted a woman
in the Garden of Eden.
I had always thought it was a snake.
It was an apple of knowledge, and knowledge kills innocence
as surely as winter snow kills summer blooms.
Ophelia!
Then I fear for my son at university
where they will fill him with knowledge.
[LAUGHTER]
- To the prince! - To the prince!
May he someday rise from his mother's lap.
I think the apple is quite innocent in the matter.
Ophelia!
What is an Ophelia?
Your Majesty, it is a child
very much like a snake's tooth and
a true snake she is, in the garden of my duty.
She?
The exact copy and very picture
of her departed and much lamented mother.
My Ophelia, my daughter, my treasure.
A treasure most in want of polishing.
This is ladies' work to polish
such a treasure, and alas, I am no lady.
Alas indeed.
I may be a lass, but there is no call for such alas-ing.
I would not want to be a lad.
Then she shall be one of my ladies
and we shall see to the raising of her.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
- Let me go! - Hold still. Stop moving.
[GASPS]
- Hold still. - Absolutely tragic.
Oh, dear.
Stop!
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[MEN LAUGHING]
- She's fair for you. - Ah, nonsense.
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
You dance like a goat, Ophelia.
[IMITATING A GOAT BLEATING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[♫ OPHELIA HUMMING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[GASPS]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[GASPING]
Her father's a flatterer.
He wormed his way in through dirt.
Have you seen how she wears flowers
never jewels in her hair?
I thought she'd been rolling in the dirt.
She smells of garden soil.
Her father can't afford jewels. She is common.
Whatever does she see in her?
There you are, Ophelia.
What took you so long this time?
Watch yourself.
[GASPS]
- My Lady. - My Lady.
Quick, before the water cools.
What do I smell? Like a garden.
[SNIGGERING]
Petals for my bath? Go ahead.
What a lovely idea, girls, thank you.
You are most welcome, My Lady.
[WATER SPLASHING]
Goodnight. Take the candles.
My eyes are too weary to read.
I could read to you, My Lady.
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
A girl who knows how to read?
My brother teaches me.
Goodnight, my queen.
Sleep well, My Lady.
My Lady.
Shut the door behind you.
Have you seen how the hens in the yard peck at each other?
Each choosing the one just weaker.
Why do the ladies peck at you?
I'm not noble, My Lady.
[SIGHS]
Did you know I was not raised at court?
My sister and I were sent as girls to a convent in France.
But even there, there were hens and they pecked.
Even the nuns?
But I had my sister to defend me.
Read to me, then. If you really can.
"A woman of Alencon
"having married for her profit…
…found a gentleman who offered her pleasure."
This is no devotional book.
Something much more important than prayer.
Read on.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
"The gentleman caused her to find herself
"alone with him in an orchard.
"Here he said unto her…
"'Madam, my heart belongs to you.'
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
"She protested that he loved her rank alone.
"And he replied, 'Madam, nothing could add
"'to your graces, except the one thing
"'that can make a face more beautiful, which is…
"'…transformation…
…in ecstasy.'"
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
"'My Lord gratifies me so much, ' replied she.
"I do not ask for any other thing.
"'Have mercy, good lady, ' cried he
"'for I am gone mad with love.'
"At this, the lady did swoon.
"Then the gentleman, seeing her half-conquered
"plied her to good purpose
with his long-concealed passion."
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[WOMAN LAUGHING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
The prince! The prince! He comes!
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
- Here he is! - Look at this, Horatio.
I told you we'd have a welcome.
Oh, and so handsome, so grown.
Every inch a king.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
- My dear son! - Mm!
[LAUGHING]
- It's good to be home. - Yes.
Come, Horatio.
Don't wanna lose you at the end of the journey.
And now we feast.
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[BUZZING]
[WATER SPLASHING]
I remember this as an excellent place to fish.
Come away, Hamlet. Let's, let's try farther down.
[HAMLET CHUCKLES]
A wondrous fish indeed, inhabits the grove.
The fish would like to come ashore.
Oh, the fish is very welcome.
No fish comes willing to the fisherman.
My Lord, it's one of the queen's ladies in waiting.
Then she will not mind waiting till I catch a fish.
Of all of the ladies, I'm least fond of waiting.
There are two sides struggling in you.
One is baser, one better.
She tells my fortune, Horatio.
My Lord, it is your misfortune.
- Come away, Hamlet. - Stay.
[BOTH SCREAMING]
[HAMLET LAUGHING]
[GRUNTING]
'Tis a quick fish, Horatio!
Get me my net!
Such lovely shades and so lifelike.
And these threads.
Oh, for a moment alone in the forest.
And almost naked.
Who do you suppose she'll meet under that greenwood tree?
Well, perhaps she has a rendezvous with some suitor.
Yes!
Have you ever ventured into the woods
outside the castle, My Lady?
No, I do not like the woods myself.
Oh, I would not dare.
Unaccompanied, indeed.
Hamlet, come.
Do you like it?
Most lifelike.
When I am finished, it will be truer than life.
Oh, where's the hunter?
See, he has left his arrows there.
Those are her arrows.
Go on, Ophelia.
She is Diana, goddess of the hunt.
She made her home in the forest.
She knew no man until the hunter Actaeon came upon her.
A hunter, not a fisherman?
He hid and watched her bathe.
Was he punished for this trespass?
Mercilessly.
Diana turned him into a stag and his own hounds tore him apart.
And do you ladies think this punishment was fit?
Hasn't that ever been the story?
Beauty turns men to beasts.
[CHUCKLES]
I'd always pictured the goddess as a girl.
You know, youthful, impulsive.
Diana is too aged in this weaving.
She is depicted as the queen, your mother, My Lord.
[GERTRUDE CHUCKLES]
It's a wretched likeness.
Unpick your threads and begin again.
- Fetch her tonic. - Quickly, after the queen.
[SOBBING]
[PEAHEN SQUAWKS]
Where could she be? I hope she's gone to her chambers.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
How did you lose sight of her?
Perhaps she's retired to her chamber.
- Come quick. - I mean, really, it's fine.
Well, she doesn't look aged at all.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Have you lost your way?
[SIGHS]
I've lived plenty long enough to know my way
and not yet long enough to forget it.
[SNIFFLES]
Your son has returned…
…you should be all joy.
And, yet, I think you pine.
[SIGHS]
It is difficult for a mother when her boy
becomes a man and no longer hers.
If I were your son, I would not soon forget you.
And yet you are not my son, but my brother.
In law, I am your brother.
But I've never much loved the law.
The gossips say there are many other things you love.
The gossips are mistaken.
There's only the one thing.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
It's very close in here.
Perhaps I need some air.
I often feel as you do at night.
I take my air on the parapets.
You will find me there.
No. I will not.
[SIGHS]
How now, Ophelia?
For a flash I thought you were a ghost.
At school we dissected a corpse into his parts.
There was no room for his ghost.
I shall have to take your word for it, My Lord.
I know nothing of the parts of men.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
You stop my heart.
If your heart stopped, you would die.
I seem to be quite alive.
Appearances deceive.
See this.
An innocent flower.
And yet it is belladonna, the most deadly nightshade.
Belladonna means beautiful woman.
And you say it is poison.
[BELL TOLLING]
Will you promise to dance with me someday?
I'm afraid I dance like a goat.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES]
[SWORDS CLANKING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
You excel today, My Lord.
[SWORDS CLANKING]
Nephew. Come.
Try your learning.
I would not want to wound you.
Nor I you. We'll, uh, we'll fight in fun.
I find no fun in fighting.
The winning knight shall wear my colors.
Rogue. Seems you wear a lady's colors already.
And you've chosen well if the girl's as bawdy as her colors.
[MEN LAUGHING]
You watch yourself.
[SWORDS CLANKING]
Ah, there's hot blood in the boy after all.
[SWORDS CLANKING]
[APPLAUDING]
Well done, Hamlet.
Hamlet!
You debate what to do next.
And, meanwhile, you do next to nothing.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
Your sword, My Lord.
[EXHALES]
Here…
[SWORDS CLANKING]
[PANTING]
It seems I was mistaken.
You have much to learn.
I prefer not to learn at the point of a sword.
My sharpness is within.
[PANTING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[ALL APPLAUDING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[RAVEN CAWING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[CLAMORING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
Marvelous creature!
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
A dragonfly!
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[LAUGHING]
A dragonfly!
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
Do not play with me.
Oh! Beautiful!
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[GASPS]
[EXHALES]
Little fish needs water?
Not water.
Wine?
[MELLOW MUSIC]
Some would say that's a pledge, to drink wine from the same cup.
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
We mustn't.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[CHUCKLES]
I will be missed.
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
I feel like a lance has gone in between my ears.
[CLEARS THROAT]
I don't think I've ever felt like this before, Horatio.
I hope you haven't.
Morning, My Lady.
- Did you enjoy the dancing? - I enjoyed the evening.
It's difficult to enjoy both the evening and the morning after.
Uh, thank God this summer is over.
My studies hurt my head a little less than my leisure.
You're returning to your studies?
Uh, we go to Wittenberg today.
- My Lord. - Leave it all for the pigs.
There was a young prince from the Netherlands
who decided to seek out the treasury.
Ophelia.
- I always meant to say goodbye. - Goodbye.
Last night, Ophelia. It was…
You'll foul your breeches, My Lord.
Well, then, goodbye.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Try to understand. - I am trying.
My father would never allow it.
He wishes me someday to take his throne.
And I am low.
- No, Ophelia. - I was deceived in you.
I see now that you are but a prince.
Goodbye.
[EXHALES]
♪ Doubt thou ♪
♪ The stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that… ♪
Farewell, father.
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
Mother.
- Goodbye, mother. - I'll miss you.
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
Godspeed, my son.
♪ Doubt truth ♪
♪ To be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
Do you know the wood beneath the castle?
I used to play at its edge.
In the wood, lives a woman.
Go to her tomorrow and get me more of what I need.
Make sure you're not followed. No one must know.
And whatever you do, do not look upon her face.
Because she is a witch?
She's a healer.
Her name is Mechtild.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[RAVEN CAWING]
[FROGS CROAKING]
[RAVENS CAWING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
Hello?
What do you want?
I was sent by the queen.
- What for? - For what she needs.
And what does she need?
She needs her youth again.
Rest from her desires.
A night's sleep without dreams.
And a husband who mulls love, not war.
But what she wants…
…is two ounces of my tonic.
Don't touch that!
I can't feel my fingertips.
It's a snake's poison from the New World.
A touch of it makes the flesh numb.
Too much of it will kill.
Could I learn such secrets?
You're a lady in waiting.
Learn to wait.
For what?
A husband, little girl, what else?
[FIZZING]
And there's no time for my brother's games.
Norway threatens invasion.
Every day is a struggle for peace.
- It was all in play. - He plays the fool.
While we're on the brink of war with our neighbors.
Do not speak ill of your brother.
Claudius shares my name, but the blood in his veins is impure.
We've all heard that story. There's no cause to believe it.
Well, he's his mother's son, alright, but there is nothing
of my father in him.
Now you insult your mother?
She's no worse than any other woman.
[SHATTERING]
- Remember yourself, my queen. - Stay with me, talk to me.
I… I have become invisible to you.
You're more visible than you realize.
All eyes are on you. Can you not feel them?
My kingdom needs me.
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[♫ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[INSECTS CHIRPING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[WIND HOWLING]
[GASPING]
Give yourself a bit of a fright, did you?
[GASPS]
I saw something.
A specter.
[LAUGHS]
Past your bedtime, eh?
And up here's not a place for a girl.
[OWL HOOTING]
Tell me, brother…
…how do they know what is inside a person?
There are men who steal corpses from the graveyard for study.
What I really wonder is, where does love reside?
Where truth, or madness?
The only answers are from science.
I did hear the prince's friend, Horatio, he…
…bribed the gravediggers to dig up a corpse.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[BELL TOLLING]
Rosencrantz? Guildenstern! What's happened?
The king! Long live the king!
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[BELL TOLLING]
Get to your posts!
- Aah! - The king.
Bitten by a poisonous snake in his own garden.
He's sick?
He's dead.
[GERTRUDE SOBS]
[GRUNTING]
[SOBBING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[♫ CHORAL SINGING]
[♫ SINGING CONTINUES]
[CHUCKLES]
[SPEAKING IN LATIN]
Father wrote to Hamlet. He should be here.
On a day such as this? He should be far away.
[♫ TRUMPET MUSIC]
Long live King Claudius!
Duly elected, brave and sober majesty.
- Long live the king. - Long live the king.
[♫ CHORAL SINGING]
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, honor us on this day.
- They're lovely, thank you. - Your Majesty.
Here, take these.
Look at you.
You will be one of my ladies.
Today the queen loves me above the rest.
But she is fickle…
…and another day you might be back in favor.
Say not she is fickle. It is too much said.
A kingdom needs a king and a king needs a wife.
Why should she be anything else?
She was already a king's wife.
- Oh! - Is my father buried?
Long since, My Lord.
Hamlet! You were so long returning.
So long that the funeral wreaths are already taken down?
Welcome, Hamlet. We are most happy you are returned.
Too late, it seems.
Too late to honor your late father.
It seems my father's honor is much besmirched.
He grieves, commendably, as every son who loses a father.
His father lost a father once, who was my father also.
We were ever men about it.
Man indeed to seduce a woman to take a crown.
- Hamlet. - You forget yourself.
The nobles held their election.
I seem to be the only one present who does not forget.
You forget how to greet a king!
[SNICKERS]
I am your king.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
Come, Gertrude.
Let us eat.
[SHUDDERS]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
- Hey! - Give it back.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[LAUGHING]
Stop it.
[GRUNTING]
Look, we've caught ourselves a pheasant.
Get off her!
Or what?
Come on.
[CHUCKLES]
Let me loose. You will pay for this.
What? You want me to pay for it. She wants me to pay for it!
Let the maiden go. This one really is a whore!
[ALL LAUGHING]
The air smells very ripe.
Perhaps a bath is in order.
What'd you say to me? Huh?
- Let her be! - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Come away.
Mastered by a maiden I see!
Come away. Hamlet, no. Come away.
Thank you, Your Highness. But I had no need of saving.
You speak of need. In need I sought you.
I have missed you, Ophelia.
I should apologize for my behavior to you last summer.
- You should? - I do.
- It is forgotten. - Forgotten but not forgiven.
Both.
I have never forgotten you.
You'll forgive me if I doubt it.
Where is the water, Ophelia?
- Cover the queen. - Hamlet.
What is the matter?
What forgetting is here?
Hamlet?
It is only a filthy bit of ribbon.
My tonic, please.
[FIZZING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
Again.
[♫ OPHELIA HUMMING]
Farewell, sister.
I'm to continue my education in France.
You are leaving?
These are strange times in this castle.
Strange indeed.
Rumors abound of all shapes and sizes.
All of them frighten me.
They are saying the prince no longer sees you as a child.
I am no longer a child.
Ophelia…
…be afraid.
Afraid of all he can take from you.
You will only be safe if you are afraid.
Tend to your own honor and I will tend to mine.
Laertes, hurry!
Time and tide wait for no man.
Now…
…my blessing on you, son.
Now, remember, keep your own counsel.
Don't be familiar or vulgar.
And don't fight, or if you do, win.
Um, dress well. But don't spend too much.
Don't borrow any money or lend it.
And above all, be true to yourself.
Farewell, father.
And take care, Ophelia.
Remember what I said.
- What did he say? - Something about Lord Hamlet.
Ah, yes, Hamlet.
They say he ran into the queen's chamber
and stared at you and spoke very strangely.
I saw it, yes.
Did he bestow on you some… sign of love?
No.
Are you lying to me, daughter?
Yes.
A lying yes is equal to a no.
No.
So, yes?
This could prove very advantageous for us.
I want nothing to do with him, father.
You're a very bad girl to be so good.
[DOOR SLAMS]
Ophelia. Come in.
Girls are not allowed in the library…
…unless they're in the books.
Yet I think you have been in here before. Come in.
I wish someday to be a healer.
There are many different kinds of healer.
A doctor then, a man of science.
You know graves are robbed for such science?
Look, Hamlet is much distressed.
He behaves wildly towards me.
But there is a method in his madness. Trust me.
Go to him, please.
Where?
The ramparts…
…at midnight.
Stay away from my grave when I am dead.
Ophelia, do not be so morbid.
I have no interest in becoming some man's anatomy lesson.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[WIND HOWLING]
[OPHELIA SHUDDERING]
- You tremble, Ophelia. - You frightened me, My Lord.
They are saying in the court there is a ghost up here.
I thought I saw it once myself.
They say it is my father's unquiet spirit.
[GATES RATTLING]
Careful, the sentinel comes.
[FIRE CRACKLING]
They say of all the queen's ladies
you are the one who knows her secrets.
To say you know a secret is to tell the secret.
Tell me only this, Ophelia.
Was my mother true to my father, her husband, the king?
I cannot tell you.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
And yet you cannot lie.
Fickle.
My mother is like all women. Fickle, frail.
My Lord…
…you are most unjust.
Frailty in love is not a habit of my sex.
Perhaps it runs in families.
Forgive me.
I see now what people are…
…and only you are not.
Not you, Ophelia.
Be comforted, My Lord.
♪ The stars are fire… ♪
Ophelia…
…my true love.
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[BIRDS CALLING]
[♫ INTENSE MUSIC]
[HISSING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DOOR SLAMS]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
The queen.
She wants her tonic.
Oh, she wants, she wants, she gets what she wants.
- She fears to feel. - And you?
What do you think you know?
You pretend you have a broken heart.
That you are innocent and wounded.
But you cannot hide your true self under ladies' clothes.
You are wild and full of desire.
They will strip you, they will judge you
and they will find you wanting death.
They will cast you to the fire.
Do you know why they call me a witch?
[WIND WHOOSHING]
At 19, I was with child
by a man who swore he'd marry me.
When my baby died inside me
rumors spread it was the devil's work.
The righteous came to cast the devil out.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Burn her!
But they didn't know…
…I knew my poisons.
Three drops on the tongue, the venom mimics death but mocks it.
Burn the witch!
They thought me dead.
You drank the venom but didn't die?
They found my corpse, threw me away
and declared the devil vanquished.
I had my remedy laid by and so I lived.
But without my son.
And what of his father?
He was quite recently married.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[RAVEN CAWING]
[RAIN PATTERING]
[BELL TOLLING]
Ophelia.
Confess to me, the keeper of your soul.
Do you love another?
I love only you.
Then meet me tomorrow at the old chapel by the lake.
Disguise yourself as a country lass.
And you a shepherd?
[CHUCKLES]
There will be talk. I fear there is already.
Let them talk.
Ophelia…
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
…I want to marry you.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- They will never allow it! - Ophelia, they will not know.
But all of Denmark should be yours.
If you were beside me I would take grass
over Denmark's gilded throne.
When the time comes we will go away from here.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
"My beloved spake, and said unto me
"rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth…
"…for his love is better than wine.
"My beloved is mine and I am his.
"Behold…
"…thou art fair, my love
"thou hast doves' eyes.
"Behold…
"…thou art fair, my beloved…
"…and also our bed is green.
"For, lo, the winter is past, and the rain is over and gone.
"Flowers appear on the earth.
"Set me as a seal on your heart
for love is stronger than death."
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[BELL TOLLING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
Good morning, My Lady.
You're up early.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[SIGHS]
Or were you up all night?
I'm told you spend your days in the country with a common boy…
…dressed like a farmer's daughter.
You don't deny it?
You repay my kindness by disgracing yourself?
No need to make yourself lower than you already are.
[GASPS]
There you are.
Good morning.
- Do you have what I need? - I do.
[FIZZING]
Why do you stare?
You look like you've seen a ghost.
Leave us, Ophelia.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
What keeps you?
Your cloak is torn, Your Majesty.
Perhaps I could mend it for you?
Are you fast?
You mean my stitches, Your Majesty?
I think you know what I mean, Ophelia.
My nephew has been very strange of late.
He haunts the corridors at night.
Do you know the cause of that?
Maybe you know the cure.
Perhaps youare the cause and the cure.
Your father says that my nephew is in love with you. Is it so?
Hm, my father told me it could not be so.
- Has he said he loves you? - Never, Your Majesty.
Has he given you a token of his love?
Never.
[♫ INTENSE MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
It was all done in innocence, Your Majesty.
If I know what I know, they're just children at play!
You said something quite different before.
I have re-thought myself, and other things.
[GRUNTING]
I have been worried about Hamlet's state of mind.
Here is the bait for him.
Now, we shall see.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
Nymph!
Where is your water?
My Lord, there is much I need to tell you.
Wh… what way is that to greet your husband?
- None. - Are you not my wife?
These games you play, My Lord, nothing is ever as it seems.
I have a remembrance I wish to return to you.
I gave you nothing. I took.
Your father was poisoned. It is true.
I once saw your uncle at a place where poisons are made.
I did not recognize him then
but I saw him again on the ramparts, disguised
the very day your father, the king, was stung.
[♫ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
So it…
…so it was no snake
but Claudius.
I must repulse your attentions
My Lord, they have been forbidden.
Are you sure what you say is true?
I found the poison in his cloak this very morning.
Then he has stolen my crown from me.
Y… y… you said you did not want the crown.
You forswore it when you married me.
I did not know it had been stolen.
Cry out as if I frighten you.
- God help him, merciful Lord! - They say I am mad!
Mad with love, they say, of me.
Then I will be mad!
And they will not see me coming.
I don't understand your meaning.
You should not know what I mean.
Remain innocent as snow.
Cry out.
God help you, sir.
The danger for you is very great.
We must get you away from here.
There is a convent in St. Emilion
where my mother lived as a girl.
You will be safe among the nuns.
- Hamlet, you cannot do this! - Go to the nunnery!
Go!
He seems…
…mad.
I think your daughter is dangerous.
She should be married
as soon as possible.
I know a guard who will do my will.
Greetings, Lord Hamlet.
[MAN WHISTLES]
Who are you greeting, my love?
Lord Hamlet!
- Please, come in! - Hey!
Everyone, come in.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
This will settle it, Horatio.
Adultery, murder, treachery!
- These are his crimes! - No! My Lord, you can't go.
She should not be here!
There he is!
He's come to sell me a fish!
I am no fish-seller, My Lord.
But what a lovely fish it is.
Hamlet! Come sit by me.
What if there was someone prettier, mother
who I would rather sit on?
Do not lie there, My Lord. Get up.
Well, where can I lie?
Can I lie in your lap?
- No, My Lord. - I mean my head in your lap.
You are merry, My Lord.
Married? Indeed!
You should know!
My mother was married, and she was widowed only hours ago.
Hold your tongue and master this madness.
They want me to marry another.
If you must marry, marry a fool.
I knew a fool once.
His name was Yorick.
He made a fool of the king's brother.
I saw him once.
He made the king laugh.
And paid with his life that very same night.
'Tis a very sad story indeed.
I know a sadder one, Ophelia.
[CLAPS]
It starts now.
[EXCLAIMING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES]
I told you to get to the nunnery.
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[HISSING]
[RATTLING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[RATTLING]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
A light.
- Let there be light! - It is a mere spectacle!
You end this now, or I will end it myself!
You are making us the spectacle!
[GRUNTING]
You take them all out and have them hanged!
I am your king!
The king knows the play is true.
Vengeance is mine.
Swift, now.
Hamlet! No.
[HAMLET BREATHING HEAVILY]
'Tis treason…
…to draw on the king.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Call the guards!
Take them to the gallows!
[CLAMORING]
I thought your lover was too low.
But I see he's too high.
You are first among those who might understand.
I was a mother to you
and you turned my son against me.
Forgive me.
My Lady, you raised me.
[SCOFFS]
I think you protest too much.
You cannot know what it is to love a son.
I know what it is to love yours.
[SHRIEKS]
[GASPS]
You stay away from him.
And stay out of my sight!
[HEAVY BREATHING]
We are ruined!
[DOOR CLOSES]
The queen has dismissed you
and I will probably follow.
If we can still get you married
you'll be less of a threat.
- What? - Tomorrow and not soon enough.
Please, no. I cannot bear it.
Our new king is baying for blood.
I am just trying to survive.
Survival isn't enough.
[SIGHING]
You are so like your mother.
No arrangement there.
You loved her.
I will speak to the queen.
And I will beg her forgiveness.
[WIND WHOOSHING]
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR SQUEAKS]
Father?
Horatio, you look fraught.
What are you doing here?
Is it Hamlet?
No, Hamlet lives.
Your father was killed.
- Not mine. Hamlet's? - No, yours.
My Lord Polonius.
Forgive me!
Forgive me, Ophelia!
Hamlet is mad indeed!
He thought it was his uncle.
He drew his sword before I could say…
…who was hidden.
It was an accident. Not Hamlet's fault, but mine.
[♫ SINGING IN LATIN]
[♫ CHANTING IN LATIN]
[♫ SINGING IN LATIN]
Where is Hamlet?
Gone.
Gone?
To England.
With Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
King's orders.
For his own safety.
It's good of the king to think of his safety.
To hurt you, Ophelia.
You cannot imagine his anguish.
- Where is my father? - Man the gates!
Where is he?
Who murdered my father?
I will have justice.
An eye for an eye.
An eye for an eye! Who murdered my father?
Be calm.
It is right and good to want to avenge his killing.
- But he did not die by my hand. - Then whose?
Hamlet.
Then Hamlet will die at my hand.
No, Laertes.
It was all a mistake.
You must think of your sister now.
- Take me to her. - I will send for her.
- Open the gate! - Come.
There is much to tell you.
Good thing you are getting married today.
You're already fat as a cow.
You're lucky to find a husband at all with no fortune
no family and no virtue left.
I hope you're not still keeping a candle lit
for your lover, the prince.
One candle would not be enough.
Even if he ceased to be at all?
If he dies then I die as well.
You seem alive to me.
Alive
but married.
To Hamlet?
Then you are a widow.
Hamlet is dead already.
My Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were sent with him.
They did not like their orders, but they obeyed the king.
What did the king tell them to do?
I will not tell!
[BOTH GRUNT]
Tell me.
[BOTH GRUNT]
- Oh! Ah! - Get her away! She's mad.
Ah! Ah!
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Tell me or I swear…
[GRUNTS]
The minute the ship left port
they were to throw him overboard.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
And they sailed last night.
[♫ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
Ophelia.
Hamlet is dead, Horatio.
Dead?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had orders to betray him
when the ship sailed.
The harbor is becalmed.
The ship still rests there.
It has not left.
Then he lives? Horatio, we can still save him.
- I… - Horatio.
The king requires you.
Have you seen my bride, Ophelia?
No. Not of late.
The whole castle searches for her.
The king bay them lock the gates.
The last of I saw of her, she was unwell.
The king has ordered that no one leave or enter.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[PANTING]
[SIGHS]
[KEYS JINGLING]
[OPHELIA GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
You see, the queen thinks that you've lost your wits
but I think your wits are the one thing
you still have about you.
No!
[OPHELIA GASPS]
No-one is going to miss you.
No father, no brother, no husband.
Yes.
We found an old village priest
who, with a little persuasion
had a very strange tale to tell.
He says that you have a husband.
And that he himself made you a wife.
Now, if you were my child…
Your only child died before he drew breath.
Yes, a son.
They called his mother a witch and made to burn her.
But you know so already.
It was you that cried witchcraft.
It was you that turned the village against the woman
who loved you.
My Lord, we heard a cry.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[SHEATHING SWORD]
Your bride is
more than a handful.
Our wedding is today, Your Majesty.
You will not want to marry a traitor.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DOOR SQUEAKS]
Leave us.
You dare not harm me.
The king suspects you of treason.
Punishment for treason is well known.
It is death.
What a waste.
Perhaps you could take me to the woods and leave me there.
The king would never know.
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
He was a good man, your father.
But you are twice him, I think.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING]
[SCREAMING]
[GIGGLES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GASPS]
Sing with me, Laertes.
[♫ HUMMING]
My sweet sister, come.
Sit. Be still.
[♫ CONTINUES HUMMING]
[OPHELIA CHUCKLES]
Ooh!
Here's rosemary, for remembrance.
I hope you remember.
Pansies for your thoughts.
Rue… for your regrets
and your sisters.
And some for me and mine.
Daisies. The day's eye.
All seeing.
Someone sees you.
[SNIFFLING]
I'd give you some violets
but they all withered when my father died.
Faithful Horatio, will you visit my grave?
- Ophelia. - Visit me before I am cold.
[OPHELIA SNIFFLES]
[OPHELIA SIGHS]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
Be sure to dig me up
and I promise you will get an excellent anatomy lesson.
Here's fennel…
…for you.
And columbines…
…for flattery.
You'll miss it now my father's gone.
Take her.
♪ Stay or else my joys ♪ ♪ will die… ♪
[♫ INDISTINCT SINGING]
Take her!
[GASPS]
- Unhand her! - Let her be!
The poor thing has gone mad.
Let her be!
Get her out of my sight.
[♫ OPHELIA HUMMING]
- You follow her. - Yes, Sire.
[♫ INDISTINCT SINGING]
Sit.
Eat.
I am no longer hungry.
[♫ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ Doubt thou the stars ♪ ♪ are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that ♪ ♪ the sun doth move ♪
[PANTING]
[GASPS]
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[HORSE NEIGHS]
Oh, venom, be merciful.
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that ♪ ♪ the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
Ophelia!
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are on fire ♪
♪ Doubt that ♪ ♪ the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar… ♪
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THUDDING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Horatio!
Where is Hamlet?
I dug you up as you commanded.
I took a venom that mimics death but mocks it.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[OPHELIA GRUNTS]
[OPHELIA BREATHING HEAVILY]
Where is Hamlet?
Swiftly, to his ship before it sails.
I'm not well, Horatio.
[OPHELIA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
What is that?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
There are scouts about.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
It's our enemies from Norway.
They're advancing on the castle.
You must warn the court.
I will not leave you.
You must warn them, Horatio.
Go.
I will go on alone.
Ophelia…
…farewell.
[OWL HOOTING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[OPHELIA BREATHING HEAVILY]
I am dying. Give me the remedy.
[SHUDDERING]
- You took the venom? - Too much, I fear. Please.
The wood is full of soldiers.
Soldiers?
Worse still. Drink.
[SIGHS]
Now be gone.
I have kept your secret.
Claudius came to you.
You helped him murder a king.
He helped himself.
I could never deny him.
Why should I? I didn't care.
Let them do to each other whatever they want to
up on their hill.
Even now.
Even that you could not deny him?
I did love him… once.
And he did love me.
It was he who cried witchcraft when your baby died.
I have witnessed his confession.
It was he who set the mob upon you.
- He would have let you burn. - No.
No, not him.
He loves power.
That is all he loves.
He mocked me.
He shall burn.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hold these.
You are in more trouble than I thought.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[RAVEN CAWING]
[MEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Halt right there.
Who are you?
A friend.
[BONES RATTLING]
[GASPS]
Have mercy, spirit.
God forgive me, Ophelia.
It is not my blood you have on your hands.
I did not think Claudius meant to kill him.
You gave him reason.
I'd lost my own.
He brought your sister to ruin.
Claudius?
You never knew he was the man she loved?
I thought any man but him.
Oh, my sister!
Absolve me.
Take my hand.
You are solid flesh.
And yet I saw my son leap into your grave.
Hamlet?
He left the ship when word reached him you had died.
- I must return to Elsinore. - No, too late.
Laertes challenged Hamlet in the matter of your father's death.
- They are set to fight. - No.
[GERTRUDE EXHALES]
Where is my sister? She will have counsel.
I cannot wait.
Hamlet will heed only me.
Claudius will have you killed.
But I'm already dead.
[♫ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
Is all prepared?
I have anointed your sword.
Just a touch will do.
Where is Hamlet?
- Boy, what's your name? - Osric, Sire.
Go fetch Hamlet, bid him come and start the fight.
As you wish, Your Majesty.
You have nothing to fear.
Shall we wager?
I have little appetite for games.
Then I'll take Laertes, by your leave.
Hamlet is far the better swordsman.
The better man does not always win.
There are two sides struggling in you.
One is baser, one better.
[CLANKING]
Ophelia?
In the flesh.
- You live? - My love.
You're… You are like a dream I had.
And when I woke, it was true.
[LAUGHS]
You must understand
I seek not this battle.
Laertes does.
And has your own revenge grown cold?
No.
- It burns in me still. - I feared as much.
Hamlet, we can escape now.
We will flee to the convent.
Not every story must end with a battle.
Where are you, Hamlet?
Come.
I will.
- I will. - Now.
I swore vengeance.
You swore to love me and be mine.
I am yours.
Ophelia.
I will follow you, Ophelia.
Hamlet!
Goodbye, my love.
- Hamlet! - Hamlet!
Let him through, My Lord.
♪ Stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that ♪ ♪ the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Aaa aa-aa aaa aaa ♪
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
[NEIGHING]
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ I love ♪
You may think you know my story.
You've heard it ends in madness
hearts broken…
…blood spilled
a kingdom lost.
That is a story.
But it is not mine.
I did not lose my way.
I did not lose myself to vengeance.
Instead I found my way to hope…
…that one day I would tell my own story.
[GIRL LAUGHING]
As one day you, my love…
…you will tell yours.
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar… ♪
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]
♪ Aaa aa-aa aaa ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou ♪ ♪ the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪ ♪ doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[♫ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[♫ MUSIC CONTINUES]