 | Mary Caroline Richards - 1989 - 196 pages
...earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's flaw! — mocks Hamlet; Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all...but to one table: that's the end. King. Alas, alas I Hamlet. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 pages
...Temporal authority and indeed all political structures of difference are turned inside out" (187). Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. (4.3.20-24) Madness, then, is not so much metaphor as metonymy for death, a moment in which the materiality... | |
 | Steven Berkoff - 1990 - 228 pages
...humour him' look.) Hamlet Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...service - two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. Claudius Alas, alas! (He feels very satisfied to see me so cuckoo.) Hamlet A man may eat fish with... | |
 | Frangois Laroque - 1993 - 444 pages
...HAM LKT: Not where he cats, but where a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en ai him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat...beggar is but variable service — two dishes, but one table. That's the end. (iv, iii, 17-25) The riddle of Polonius' supper suggests, once again, that... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 236 pages
...At supper? Where? Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...but, to one table. That's the end. King: Alas, alas. Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of... | |
 | Geoffrey Hill - 1992 - 344 pages
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 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...Polonius is at supper: "Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end." His poetry, as in the stately speech of Cordelia's future husband in Lear (1.1.): "Thy dowerless daughter,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm 20 is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures...but to one table. That's the end. KING Alas, alas! HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that... | |
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Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of [politic] worms* are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. 
