...spectators is a temporary rather than a permanent state. In his next words Hamlet enjoins Horatio, If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee...harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story. (v. ii. 348-51) Horatio's task - and by extension that of Hamlet's other 'audience' - is to make history...

...father (the Ghost commands Hamlet, "Remember me," even as Hamlet requires Horatio to retell his story: "If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,/ Absent...harsh world draw thy breath in pain/ To tell my story" [5.2.351-54]), but also because, as Derrida has argued of Poe's story, "The Facts in the Case of M....

...fancy. 10230 Hamlet There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. 10231 Hamlet 10232 Hamlet The rest is silence. 10233 Henry IV Part 1 Thou hast the most unsavoury similies. 10234...

...clear Hamlet's name. The third thing he does before dying is to spare a few seconds for the lyrical: 'If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,/ Absent...world draw thy breath in pain/ To tell my story.' Hamlet manipulates Horatio's feelings and asks him, if he ever loved him, to face pain and suffering...

...arms of his dear friend, says, I am dead. Thou livest. Report me in my cause aright to the uninformed. Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me....harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story. Such an insignificant, yet magnificent wish! He could not have known that a single phrase would be...

...(5.2.340-42) A moment later O God, Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall I leave behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,...harsh world draw thy breath in pain To tell my story. (346-51) Reputation, honor, posthumous rehabilitation — these are Hamlet's dominant thoughts. A cynic...

...liquor left. SAM. (As HAMLET:) As th' art a man, Give me the cup. Let go! By heaven, I'll ha't O good Horatio, what a wounded name (Things standing thus...thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in the harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story. (March afar off and shot within.) What warlike...

...table, chair and phone for the second half. There is a slide screen that appears for the second play. "If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart Absent thee...world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story." -Hamlet, Act V, Scene II The Award and Other Plays is dedicated with great love and admiration to my...

...understanding. All we can hope for is the possibility of more and more understanding. As Shakespeare wrote: If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart. Absent thee...harsh world draw thy breath in pain To tell my story. (Hamlet) And so I end where I began: We are born strangers into the world. Growing up is a process...

...words to Horatio could hardly be further from his opening speech about "that within which passes show": If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart. Absent thee...harsh world draw thy breath in pain To tell my story. (5.2.351-54) "If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart": a possibility that a man in the grip of skepticism's...