Hamlet
Act 3 Scene 1 Extract
Key Scene: The Nunnery Scene
HAMLET We are arrant knaves all - believe none of us. Go
thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?
OPHELIA At home, my lord.
HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.
OPHELIA O help him, you sweet heavens!
HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for
thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a
nunnery. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a
fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters
you make of them. To a nunnery go, and quickly too.
Farewell.
OPHELIA Heavenly powers restore him.
HAMLET I have heard too of your paintings well enough. God
hath given you one face and you make yourselves
another. You jig and amble and you lisp, you
nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness
ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't. It hath
made me mad. I say we will have no more marriage.
Those that are married already - all but one - shall
