 | Steven Berkoff - 1990 - 228 Seiten
...her ... let it out slowly . . . feeling the adrenalin starting to sluice through my stomach: Hamlet I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...things that it were better my mother had not borne me. Now I pour into the hungry ears all the things they want to hear: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious,... | |
 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 Seiten
...Moreover, Ophelia fuses with Gertrude not only as potential cuckold-maker but also as potential mother: Get thee to a nunnery. Why, wouldst thou be a breeder...things that it were better my mother had not borne me. (3.1.121-24) The implicit logic is: why would you be a breeder of sinners like me? In the gap between... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 Seiten
...(2.2.293ff.). He asks the girl he loves why she wishes to be a breeder of sinners, and tells her (3.1.121ff.) I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...things, that it were better my mother had not borne me . . . What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all;... | |
 | David Rosen - 1993 - 260 Seiten
...sinner, "for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it" (III. 1.117— 1 8). "I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me" (III.Ì.H3— 2,4; cf. "would it were not so, you are my mother," III.iv.i5). "We are arrant knaves... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 Seiten
...discourse upon his own sinfulness, which is merely the sinfulness of being human. Get thee to a nunn'ry, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself...I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to... | |
 | Joanne Miller - 2013 - 98 Seiten
...his own ambitious motives A. Act III: Hamlet tells Ophelia that although he is moderately virtuous, "yet I could accuse me of such things that it were...borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious. ..." B. Act III: Hamlet tells Rosencrantz that his "distemper" is because "I lack advancement," meaning... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 Seiten
...that his inheritance from suckling Gertrude's maternal matter is moral because corporal contamination: "I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...things that it were better my mother had not borne me" (3.1. 122-24). 10 The original malaise of origin is exacerbated in the next developmental stage of... | |
 | 1996 - 264 Seiten
...of CLAUDIUS, POLONIUS, and even him, a man unworthy of her love. He wants her to be safe. To escape. HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be...things that it were better my mother had not borne mc. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 Seiten
...inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not. OPH. I was the more deceived. HAM. Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder...myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me 120 of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1, I. 123^1(1604). Speaking to Ophelia. Hamlet's reasoned thus: "I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.... What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves, all." 4 "Pray... | |
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Get thee to a nunnery ; Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me... 
