...Gertrude may steal a glance at her husband when he confidently asserts the sacrosanctness of royalty: There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would . . . Claudius carries the fight to a baffled Laertes, so authoritatively that Laertes is reduced to...

...royalty. (This is the very height of Claudius's hypocrisy, the regicide who can nervously pronounce, "There's such Divinity doth hedge a King, / That Treason can but peep to what it would, / Acts little of his will" [FF.4.5: 2868-70].) The riddle of the king who goes through the belly of a beggar also warns...

...cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person. There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude. Speak, man. (122-129)...

...magnificently. When threatened by a rebellious subject, he bravely confronts him with the bold words "There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will" (4.5.124). And even as he dies he projects the 35 invulnerability of annointed majesty, "O,...

...bravado. He will face him out. CLAUDIUS (continuing) Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person. There's such divinity doth hedge a King That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incensed Even firmer now. CLAUDIUS (continuing) Let him...

..."greatness" and produces a sort of awe in the ordinary beholder. Shakespeare's audience felt strongly that "there's such divinity doth hedge a king, that treason can but peep to what it would"; and many persons today cannot help being "impressed" when first introduced into the presence of a multimillionaire...

...authority doth hedge a — 'Quern!' " This gleeful line transposes Claudius's empty boast in Hamlet: "There's such divinity doth hedge a king, / That treason can but peep to what it would, / Acts little of his will" (IV, v, 123-25). Instead of divinity, Ellen Terry exalts self-generated individual authority,...

...10225 Hamlet When sorrows come, they coine not single spies, But in battallons. Horatlo, 10226 Hamlet 10227 Hamlet There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies....

...King Claudius of Denmark, who said, having treasonously bumped off his inadequately hedged brother, "There's such divinity doth hedge a king, that treason can but peep at what it would." Of course, the Divinity theory won't stand up to any kind of critical examination....

...infranchissable, quand bien même on parviendrait par moments à deviner le roi derrière celle-ci : "There's such divinity doth hedge a king / That treason can but peep to what it would, / Acts little of his will. — ..." (4.5.122). L'éloignement du roi de la sphère du visible, l'utilisation du secret...