莎士比亚最著名的悲剧中最好的试镜独白并非都是由主角来演绎的。当然，哈姆雷特会做大部分的演讲，但在他咆哮的同情派对之间，配角们还有许多其他精彩的演讲。

以下是《哈姆雷特》中三部最好的非哈姆雷特独白。

格特鲁德描述了奥菲莉亚的死亡

可怜的奥菲莉亚。首先，她被王子般的男友哈姆雷特甩了。然后她父亲被谋杀了！（同一位王子般的前男友）这位年轻女子失去了理智，在第四幕中，格特鲁德女王传达了奥菲莉亚溺水身亡的悲惨消息。

GERTRUDE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element; but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

普罗尼尔斯的建议

在他的儿子莱尔提斯离开王国之前，普罗尼尔斯提供了广泛的建议。其中一些已经相当有名了。然而，在你接受所有这些智慧的话语之前，请记住，普罗尼尔斯是剧中最大的白痴。

POLONIUS: Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There - my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar: Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all- to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!

克劳迪斯的忏悔

在《哈姆雷特》的前几幕中，观众不确定哈姆雷特的叔叔克劳迪斯国王是否是凶手。当然，鬼魂指责他，但即使是哈姆雷特也推测，这个鬼魂实际上可能是一个希望欺骗王子的恶魔。然而，一旦哈姆雷特无意中听到克劳迪斯跪下认罪，我们就终于得到了一些更具体（也更少超自然）的证据。

CLAUDIUS: O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder! Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder- My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above. There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay. Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe! All may be well.