| J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 pages
...replies, 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. (Hamlet W 3 17-24) It is the fool in us that knows we are all heading towards that 'supper'. Always... | |
| K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...supper! Where? 19 Ham. 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. 26 [King. Alas, alas! Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish... | |
| Erin McKenna, Andrew Light - 2004 - 296 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...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... | |
| Lindsay Price - 2005 - 52 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...service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. CLAUDIUS: Where is Polonius? HAMLET: In heaven; send hither to see. If your messenger find him not... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...he eats, but where "a is eaten — a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him: your 20 worm is your only emperor for diet, we fat all creatures...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... | |
| Kenneth S. Jackson - 2005 - 324 pages
...apparent opposites, King and beggar, "are at the same time twins." A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...variable service — two dishes, but to one table. (4.3.19-24) The antithesis of beggar/king, top and bottom, Carroll argues, "confirms the king's hierarchical... | |
| A.M. Mannion - 2006 - 344 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...two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. KING CLAUDIUS Alas, alas! HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish... | |
| Mary Floyd-Wilson, Garrett A. Sullivan - 2006 - 232 pages
...mortality but also of the ways in which their embodiment is caught up in political forms of consumption: "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...variable service — two dishes, but to one table" (4.3.21-23). The play's critique of sociopolitical dynamics in terms of the ingestion of one form of... | |
| Joan Fitzpatrick - 2007 - 188 pages
...Polonius "at supper" (4.3. 19): 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. (4.3.20-25) Hamlet's comment suggests that death is the great leveller: the gluttonous ("Your fat king")... | |
| Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 pages
...imagines Polonius at dinner: "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...your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes to one table. That's the end. The remains of a king fed upon by worms that are, in turn, fed upon by... | |
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