Hamlet tente de tuer le roi (Hamlet Attempts to Kill the King), Act III, scene 3, in Hamlet
Maker and role
Artist: Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798-1863
Year
1843
Object detail
Media/Materials
Lithograph on chine-collé
Measurements
sheet, 22 x 14in (55.9 x 35.6cm)
image, 11 x 8 1/2in (27.9 x 21.6cm)
image, 11 x 8 1/2in (27.9 x 21.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2001.48.6
Object type
Department
Location
Theatre production
Play by William Shakespeare, influenced by an English production in Paris in 1827, with Charles Kemble as Hamlet and Harriet Smithson as Ophelia.
Further information
A présent je puis le tuer facilement ... mais quoi! le surprendrais-je au milieu de ses prières, au moment où il purifie son âme! non, non, — Ô conscience plus noire que la mort! âme engluée dans le crime! je ne puis prier! ... mes paroles s'adressent là-haut, mes pensées demeurent, ici bas.
(Hamlet: Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; / ... and am I then revenged, / To take him in the purging of his soul, / ... No! ... / And that his soul may be as damn'd and black / As hell, whereto it goes...
King Claudius: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below...)
(Hamlet: Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; / ... and am I then revenged, / To take him in the purging of his soul, / ... No! ... / And that his soul may be as damn'd and black / As hell, whereto it goes...
King Claudius: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below...)
Documentation
Ingres, Delacroix; Loys Delteil; 1969; 110
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