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... letter Q means Quarto 1604 ; F means Folio 1623 . The dates of the later Quartos are as follows : -Q 3 , 1605 ; Q 4 , 1611 ; Q 5 , undated ; Q 6 , 1637. For my few references to these later Quartos I have trusted the Cambridge ...
... letter Q means Quarto 1604 ; F means Folio 1623 . The dates of the later Quartos are as follows : -Q 3 , 1605 ; Q 4 , 1611 ; Q 5 , undated ; Q 6 , 1637. For my few references to these later Quartos I have trusted the Cambridge ...
Page xii
... letter graven on wood , requesting the king to slay Amleth . The letter is altered by Amleth , and his companions are put to death . His adventures in Britain do not affect Shakespeare's play . He returns , makes the courtiers drunk ...
... letter graven on wood , requesting the king to slay Amleth . The letter is altered by Amleth , and his companions are put to death . His adventures in Britain do not affect Shakespeare's play . He returns , makes the courtiers drunk ...
Page xiii
... letter accompanying Greene's Menaphon . We know from this passage , and other allusions , that it was a drama written under the influence of Seneca , and that a ghost appeared in it crying " Revenge ! " Henslowe's diary informs us that ...
... letter accompanying Greene's Menaphon . We know from this passage , and other allusions , that it was a drama written under the influence of Seneca , and that a ghost appeared in it crying " Revenge ! " Henslowe's diary informs us that ...
Page xvii
... letter , and before the " fishmonger " dialogue with Polonius ; lines spoken to Hamlet by the Ghost on the platform are here spoken by Hamlet to his mother in her closet ; Hamlet's comparison of Rosencrantz to a sponge appears here in ...
... letter , and before the " fishmonger " dialogue with Polonius ; lines spoken to Hamlet by the Ghost on the platform are here spoken by Hamlet to his mother in her closet ; Hamlet's comparison of Rosencrantz to a sponge appears here in ...
Page xxi
... letter , the players arrive ; and , when Hamlet parts from them , his words are , " I'll leave you till to - night . " But before this day arrives ... letters arrive announcing that Hamlet is again in Denmark ; before he INTRODUCTION xxi.
... letter , the players arrive ; and , when Hamlet parts from them , his words are , " I'll leave you till to - night . " But before this day arrives ... letters arrive announcing that Hamlet is again in Denmark ; before he INTRODUCTION xxi.
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Page 43 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 109 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 21 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two...
Page 225 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me ! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 48 - My tables, — meet it is, I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark : [ Writing. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word ; It is, Adieu, adieu ! remember me.
Page 131 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 77 - ... 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 144 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 22 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 110 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.