Possible Remembrances in Hamlet
Hamlet’s famous Player’s Speech in Act II Scene 2 has Hamlet recalling a speech he remembers from a
previous performance by the players. “One speech in’t I chiefly loved - ‘twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido - and
thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam’s slaughter”. Hamlet begins by reciting 13 lines, before
inviting a player to complete the speech. Priam’s violent death is recounted in Virgil’s
Aeneid
and
Marlowe’s
Dido
. The recounted speech in Hamlet bears little correspondence to either of these possible
sources. There are, however, a couple of details that bear some resemblance to Marlowe’s text:
Aeneas:
At last came Pyrrhus, fell and full of ire,
His harness dropping blood, and on his spear
The mangled head of Priam’s youngest son,...
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