...Hamlet departs for England (and, in Quarto i, just after his most vigorous commitment to revenge: "O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" 4.4.65-66). His restored identity is validated — symbolically as well as literally — over Ophelia's...

...point, it makes less sense to do so here: to shout out, at the top of his voice, the final resolve ("Oh from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth, " 4-4-65-66) seems more than a little ridiculous. A whispered injunction to himself would be more effective...

...let all sleep? While to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot 60 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain?...

...say 'This thing's to do', Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. ending O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! (IV. iv. 43-66) 'Cause' and 'will' ought to produce effect; but in this play they do not, and we...

...('What is a man . . .'), twice contemplates himself (43 ff, 56 ff), and resolves to take vengeance ('O, from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth' [65] ). During the soliloquy there has been some inner change and at the end of it a different Hamlet...

...opportunity presents itself. His words suggest an intuitive groping after reality itself: . . . O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! (IV, iv, 65-6) Hamlet comes full circle in more than one way. The 'tale' is completed, the problems...

...England: on the verge of embarking on the ship, Garrick replaced the last lines of the soliloquy ('O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth'), with lines of his own invention: 'O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody all! The hour is come!...

...again like the seventh soliloquy, Hamlet's decision here does not lead to any action. He declares that "from this time forth,/ My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth," but he is going to England, moving away from his revenge. In fact, his return to Denmark is not the...

...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, even before reading their 'commission', he closes the sequence with 'O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth' (4.4.67-8). Brook's 'condensed' Hamlet aims, according to the programme notes, 'to prune away the inessential,...

...foretaste of his own true self there is a ring of confidence and resolution that we have not heard before: From this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! (IV, 4, 65-66) Objectively of course the world "bloody" must be taken to mean "concerned with slaughter,"...