The Hamlet Project

Classsic ghost.
Your average ghost is terse like this, right?
You’re gonna get “Booooo.” Or “Guilty!” or “You did it.”
“Mark me” fits right into the ghostly repertoire
You might wonder if he has words at all after an opener like that.
Maybe death turns a person monosyllabic.
Turns out
It doesn’t.
Not for this ghost anyway –
He’s gonna head right to several three syllable five dollar words in a few seconds
But he starts as classic ghost.
I wonder, though, if Hamlet Sr. spoke like this in life, too.
Was he given to pronouncements?
He was a king, after all – and presumably for some time.
Perhaps his speech was always peppered with preparations like this.
Maybe it was a ritual with him
Before he spoke
To demand attention
That he already had.