Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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let twelve the ghost may come again. The clock strikes, and the figure of the murdered King appears.Hamlet speaks to the spectre: Hamlet: Thou spirit dread, thou shade revered,Hear thou thy hapless sons lament.In pity answer,—speak to me!Tell me why the sepulchre,Wherein we saw thee peacefully en-tombed,Hath opd his ponderous and marblejaws,To cast thee forth again? The ghost motions Horatio andMarcellus to withdraw, and when theyare gone he tells Hamlet of the murderand bids him become the avenger, butasks him to leave his mothers pun-ishment to God. Hamlet is muchaffected and exclaims: Hamlet: Yes! Shade revered! Thy bidding shall be done.O light, O sun, O glory, O love to me so dear,Farewell! Farewell! The ghost, before disappearing,pauses at the back of the stage, andstands with one hand extended towardHamlet; at this moment Horatio andMarcellus re-enter, and appear terror-stricken at the spectacle before them.Trumpets and joyous music are heard without as the curtain falls. 198
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hamlet and the ghost VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-THOMAS HAMLET ACT II SCENE—Garden of the Palace Ophelia enters and is much disturbed because Hamlet seems to avoid her. The Queenfinds her weeping, and after questioning her says that Hamlet has also acted strangelytoward his mother and fears his reason is affected. Hamlet, seeking to entrap the King in some manner into betraying himself, has engageda troupe of players to present a play which shall enact a similar crime. The King andQueen are delighted that he seems to seek amusement, and gladly accept his invitation towitness the play. Iff M K - -■*-* m LJI i fl ivwiww 11 1, *>W> ■> ■ i f^agi- ^HP^ f ■^^^^ ^^■^■i^^ -..- r V rji PLAY PICTORI THE KING REVEALS HIS GUILT ACT II When the royal pair have departed, the players come on and are instructed by Hamletin the plot he has conceived. The Prince then calls for wine and bids the players be merry,offering to sing them a drinking song. O vin, discacciala tristezza (B

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