The Ghost Scene in Hamlet

                Characters 1 and 2 are both middle aged, middle class men who are watching Hamlet and are discussing the ghost scene. Both are married, but don’t have any family present at the play. They are reasonably well dressed, since everybody dressed up to see plays in that time. Both are religious; however, they are in disagreement on the nature of the ghost.

1: Hamlet is a daw f’r believing this ghost. In all likelihood, this ghost is a goodyear who is trying to tempteth Hamlet to commit a sineth. Ev’rybody knows that ghosts art souls trapp’d in purgat’ry, and seeking out oth’rs to joineth them. Hamlet is clearly a sinn’r and des’rves punishment of some kind. the only piece missing is what crime he is committ’d. He belike kill’d his owneth fath’r in hopes that it wouldst alloweth him to taketh the throne moo easily.

2: I disagreeth. Not all ghosts art bad. Yea if ’tis not actually Hamlet’s dead fath’r, it may be s’rving as a warning. If King Hamlet was marry murd’red, ’tis not too farfetch’d of an idea that the murd’r’r will eventually cometh aft’r hamlet himself. As the son of the previous king, Hamlet hath a fair claimeth to the throne. And if ’tis marry the ghost of the previous king, Hamlet hath an obligation to heareth him enchafed, at the v’ry least.

1: What good couldst cometh of that? Listening to the ghost will only increaseth the chance that he will convince Hamlet to sineth.

2: Thither is the possibility that ’tis trying to tempteth Hamlet, eith’r as a punishment f’r some wrongdoing ‘r simply out of spite, but what if he is telling the sooth?

1: He isn’t. These spirits art deceptive by nature. Thither may be some element of sooth in the mattereth, but anon Claudius is king, and any action against him by hamlet, nay mattereth the legitimacy, wouldst be an act against god. The men that showeth him the ghost art belike just as evil.

2: If the ghost is telling the sooth, and Hamlet doesn’t act anon, Claudius will most likely nev’r hast to faceth justice. Thinketh about it: nobody else will act against the king f’r the v’ry reasoneth thou just mentioned, yea if they art convinc’d that he’s guilty. If Claudius did marry killeth the king, this is the one chance f’r justice. Hamlet owes it to his fath’r to looketh into the mattereth furth’r, at the least.

1: We’ll seeth. In the endeth, he will regreteth it.