Friendly Folio - Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare...

Beginnings Available:

The complete package for a play's first 30 minutes, with all scripts and guides. The perfect introduction to Cue Script work in the classroom or workshop.

Total Lines Characters Genders Running Time  
590 13 (or 11 with doubling) 11 male, 2 female 34 to 39 mins

Parts / Sides in 'Hamlet':

250+ Lines:
Hamlet
Horatio
King (Claudius)
Polonius
Less Than 250 Lines:
Ambassador
Barnardo
Captaine
Clowne (First Gravedigger)
Cornelius
Fortinbras
Francisco
Ghost
Guildensterne
Laertes
Laertes Follower
Lord
Lucianus (Player)
Marcellus
Messenger
Ophelia
Osricke
Other Clowne (Second Gravedigger)
Player King (First Player)
Player Queene
Priest
Prologue (Player)
Queene (Gertrude)
Reynoldo
Rosincrance
Saylor
Servant
Voltemand

Speeches:

Code Character Lines First Line  
M-400 Player King (First Player)29 Anon he findes him,
(NULL)
M-401 Player King (First Player)45 Anon he findes him, (Extended)
(NULL)
M-402 Ghost48 I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast
(NULL)
M-403 Hamlet32 Extasie? My Pulse as yours doth temperately keepe time,
(O throw away the worser part of it,)
M-404 Hamlet34 I so, God buy'ye: Now I am alone.
(Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?)
M-405 Hamlet57 I so, God buy'ye: Now I am alone. (Extended)
(Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?)
M-406 Hamlet18 (prose) I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation
(What a piece of worke is a man!)
M-407 Hamlet26 Ile be with you straight, goe a little before. (Quarto speech)
(How all occasions doe informe against me,)
M-408 Hamlet27 Looke heere upon this Picture, and on this,
(NULL)
M-409 Hamlet22 Now might I do it pat, now he is praying,
(NULL)
M-410 Hamlet20 Oh all you host of Heaven! Oh Earth; what els?
(NULL)
M-411 Hamlet31 Oh that this too, too solid Flesh would melt,
(NULL)
M-412 Hamlet34 (prose) Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd
(NULL)
M-413 Hamlet42 (prose) Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd (Extended)
(NULL)
M-414 Hamlet35 To be, or not to be, that is the Question:
(NULL)
M-415 Horatio28 Season your admiration for a while
(Two nights together, had these Gentlemen)
M-416 Horatio40 That can I, At least the whisper goes so: Our last King,
(Ile crosse it, though it blast me. Stay Illusion:)
M-417 King (Claudius)14 Laertes, I must common with your greefe,
(NULL)
M-418 King (Claudius)37 Oh my offence is ranke, it smels to heaven,
(NULL)
M-419 King (Claudius)25 Though yet of Hamlet our deere Brothers death
(NULL)
M-420 Laertes35 Thinke it no more:
(Feare it Ophelia, feare it my deare Sister,)
M-421 Polonius22 My Liege, and Madam, to expostulate
(Madam, I sweare I use no Art at all:)
M-422 Polonius41 My Liege, and Madam, to expostulate (Extended)
(Madam, I sweare I use no Art at all:)
M-423 Polonius27 Yet heere Laertes? Aboord, aboord for shame,
(NULL)
W-400 Queene (Gertrude)16 Alas, how is't with you?
(This is the very coynage of your Braine,)
W-401 Queene (Gertrude)18 There is a Willow growes aslant a Brooke,
(NULL)
W-402 Ophelia24 Alas my Lord, I have beene so affrighted.
(My Lord, as I was sowing in my Chamber,)
W-403 Ophelia12 O what a Noble minde is heere o're-throwne?
(NULL)
W-404 Ophelia26 They bore him bare fac'd on the Beer,
(There's Rosemary, that's for Remembraunce.)