Good evening and welcome once again to brush up your Shakespeare where we make

Shakespeare fun and easy the way it was always meant to be. This is episode

18 and today we are now in Hamlet Act 4, scene 5.

The line for tonight's episode is,

when sorrows come, they come not single spies,

but in battalions.

Isn't that a great line?

It's like the way Shakespeare would say,

it never rains, but it pours.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Repeat it with me, please.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

but in battalions.

And one more time, when sorrows come,

they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Hamlet is currently on his way to England, being escorted by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, unknowingly to his death. On the way Hamlet comes across a large force of

Norwegian soldiers going to fight against Poland for a tiny piece of land worth nothing.

This example of fighting to the death where honors at the stake fills Hamlet with

recriminations for not having revenged his father's death yet by killing the new king of Denmark his uncle Claudius.

But back at the castle, Hamlet's rash action in killing Polonius, hiding behind the Aris in the Queen's

Chambers, is exploding the lives of other people, specifically Ophelia Polonius's daughter.

Ophelia's position is tragic.

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