Shakespeare Select Plays: Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkAt The Clarendon Press, 1872 - 250 pages |
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... Richard Bradocke , for Thomas Pauier , and are to be sold at his shop in Corne - hill , neere to the Royall Exchange , 1608. ' Between the story of Hamlet as it appears in this ' Hystorie ' and the story as it appears in Shakespeare ...
... Richard Bradocke , for Thomas Pauier , and are to be sold at his shop in Corne - hill , neere to the Royall Exchange , 1608. ' Between the story of Hamlet as it appears in this ' Hystorie ' and the story as it appears in Shakespeare ...
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... Richard III . At some time therefore between 1598 and 1602 Hamlet , as retouched by Shakespeare , was put upon the stage . We are inclined to think that it was acted not very long before the date of Roberts ' entry in the Stationers ...
... Richard III . At some time therefore between 1598 and 1602 Hamlet , as retouched by Shakespeare , was put upon the stage . We are inclined to think that it was acted not very long before the date of Roberts ' entry in the Stationers ...
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... Richard III , iii . 2. 5 , upon the stroke of four , ' and in the same play , iv . 2. 115 , upon the stroke of ten . ' See also Measure for Measure , iv . 1. 17 , ' much upon this time have I promised here As Francisco speaks the clock ...
... Richard III , iii . 2. 5 , upon the stroke of four , ' and in the same play , iv . 2. 115 , upon the stroke of ten . ' See also Measure for Measure , iv . 1. 17 , ' much upon this time have I promised here As Francisco speaks the clock ...
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... Richard II , iii . 1. 13 . 49. sometimes . Here used , as in Richard II , i . 2. 54 , and v . 5. 75 , in the sense of sometime . ' " 55. on't , of it . See King Lear , i . 4. 114 , ' Why , this fellow has banished two on's daughters ...
... Richard II , iii . 1. 13 . 49. sometimes . Here used , as in Richard II , i . 2. 54 , and v . 5. 75 , in the sense of sometime . ' " 55. on't , of it . See King Lear , i . 4. 114 , ' Why , this fellow has banished two on's daughters ...
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... Richard II , i . 2. 2 , and Abbott , § 451. See also ' cast ' in line 73 of the present scene , ' hatch ' and ' disclose ' in iii . 1. 166 , and remove , ' iv . 5. 62 . 6 61. Norway , i . e . the King of Norway , as in i . 2. 28. So ...
... Richard II , i . 2. 2 , and Abbott , § 451. See also ' cast ' in line 73 of the present scene , ' hatch ' and ' disclose ' in iii . 1. 166 , and remove , ' iv . 5. 62 . 6 61. Norway , i . e . the King of Norway , as in i . 2. 28. So ...
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Page 48 - What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 49 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 71 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 68 - 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...
Page 41 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 68 - 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?
Page 95 - Of crow-flowers, 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 pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 65 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. Why ! do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 55 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 49 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.