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" That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty,... "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello - Page 170
by William Shakespeare - 1826
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Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays ...

Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...on; and yet within a month — Let me not think on't . . . (1.2.139-46) This image of parental love is so satisfying to Hamlet in part because it seems...
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After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 pages
...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why she would hang on him As if increase...father's body, Like Niobe, all tears — why, she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer — married with my uncle,...
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And Flights of Angels

Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this: But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, Within a month — Let me not think on't; frailty,...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, she married with my uncle, My father's brother,...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she O God, a beast that wants discourse...
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Hamlet and Narcissus

John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
..."Heaven and earth, / Must I remember?" the young prince of Denmark rhetorically and angrily asks himself: Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, •why she, even she — O God, a beast that...
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Hamlet

1996 - 264 pages
...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman He turns to face away from the door. HAMLET (continuing) A little month, or ere those shoes were old...
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Reading Shakespeare Historically

Lisa Jardine - 1996 - 224 pages
...brother's widow, there is no doubt in the play of the incest, and Hamlet states the case directly: 'Let me not think on't - Frailty, thy name is woman...poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears - why, she O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer - married with my uncle, My...
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Centuries’ Ends, Narrative Means

Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - 1996 - 414 pages
...Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...within a month — Let me not think on't — Frailty, they name is woman — (1.2.135-46) Grief over his father's death is overlaid and supplanted by obsessive...
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The Incorporated Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment

Michael O'Donovan-Anderson - 1996 - 180 pages
...primarily, of course, Hamlet who upbraids his mother in this way — in terms of who she is ingesting: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite...and yet within a month — / Let me not think on't" (I.ii. 143-46; cf. Iv55-57). Yet "think on't" he does, and, in trying not to dwell on it, his fantasies...
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Coming of Age in Shakespeare

Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 pages
...counterpart for the troubled workings of his mind. Consider this single sentence from the first soliloquy: Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...it fed on; and yet within a month Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed...
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