The Genesis of Hamlet

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H. Holt, 1907 - 133 Seiten
"This essay presents the chief new results of a prolonged study of Hamlet with a succession of college classes. I became convinced long ago that the only hope of solving the Hamlet problem lay in a clear discrimination between Shakespeare's original contributions to the story and the legendary materials that he inherited..." - Preface.
 

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Seite 52 - Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
Seite 31 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work ; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon.
Seite 59 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Seite 37 - It is a common practice now-adays, amongst a sort of shifting companions that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavours of art, that could scarcely Latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar...
Seite 103 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Seite 90 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 27 - To be, or not to be,' says Hamlet in the First Quarto of his play (1603), 'ay, there's the point. | To die, to sleep: is that all? Ay...
Seite 37 - Blood is a beggar and so forth ; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets — I should say handfuls — of tragical speeches.

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