 | 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... | |
 | Renate Schruff - 1999 - 328 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Benjamin Newman - 2000 - 152 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 356 pages
...Claudius sense a threat to himself in Hamlet's word-play concerning maggots, kings and beggars? SCENE 3 fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one 25 table - that's the end. KING Alas, alas! HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a... | |
 | Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt - 2000 - 272 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...Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That's the end" (4.3.22-25). Here, as in the lines about the... | |
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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. 
