Fun with Hamlet, because I should be writing an essay in French right now

So, I'm in a high school Honors Brit Lit class, and we're reading Hamlet right now. (Actually, right now we're on vacation, but you know what I mean.) On Friday, we read Act I scene 5 out loud in class. Normally, with plays in English class, you get most of the class just reading the words on the page one after another with no expression or even regard for punctuation at all, which kind of annoys me, being the drama person I am. In this case, however, the ghost was played by a boy who's also really into the drama club, and he went crazy-in-a-good-way with the expression-spooky voices, shouting, and he even ducked down behind his chair when the ghost exited. (They were at the front of the room.) Meanwhile, the kid playing Hamlet was of the monotone 'school'. Everyone kept cracking up, but I bet that's not a scene we forget in a hurry.

The funny thing was, it actually worked. Just not the kind of 'work' I had envisioned reading the scene the night before.

Especially where Hamlet had monosyllabic answers to dramatic proclamations, like here:

HAMLET

Speak; I am bound to hear.

Ghost

So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.

HAMLET

What?

or here:

[Ghost]
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--

HAMLET

O God!

it seemed like Hamlet was just in way over his head with all this crime and revenge and supernaturalism and just wanted to go back to Wittenberg and study Aristotle or whatever princes studied at Wittenberg back then.