| Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 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...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. HAMLET. In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other... | |
| Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 pages
...gave him. (in.iv. 172-77) 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. (IV.iii. 19-25) When Hamlet reveals where he has hidden Polonius, the jest produced by ignoring the... | |
| John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
...eaten," Hamlet, with black and deadly humor, answers: A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en now at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We...service — two dishes but to one table. That's the end. (IV.iii. 19-25) "Alas, alas," Claudius responds, deprecating the disease of his nephew's wits. But... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 pages
...where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only 20 emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat...may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and 25 eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAM. Nothing but... | |
| William C. Carroll - 1996 - 268 pages
...death will bring even a king low. As for Polonius's body, Hamlet. 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... | |
| 1996 - 264 pages
...supper? Where? HAMLET (jolly) 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...service — two dishes, but to one table. That's the end CLAUDIUS Alas, alas! This last for the company. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a King,... | |
| Bika Reed - 1997 - 164 pages
...At supper? Where? Hamlet: 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...lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but 'The ancient British considered maggots as their main food. It must have been a long extinct variety... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 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...service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. H AML ET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and 25 eat of the... | |
| Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor - 2000 - 436 pages
...King. At supper? Where? Ham. 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...beggar is but variable service — two dishes, but one table. That's the end. King. Alas, alas. Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king,... | |
| Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt - 2001 - 259 pages
...and revulsion, an obsession with a corporeality that reduces everything to appetite and excretion. "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end" (4.3.22-25). Here, as in the lines about the king's progress through the guts of a beggar, the revulsion... | |
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