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... doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word. (III.1.50–53) The capacity to appropriate and redirect the speech of another ...
... doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word. (III.1.50–53) The capacity to appropriate and redirect the speech of another ...
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... doth hedge a king | That treason can but peep to what it would' (IV.5.125–6). Notice, though, that the ruling elite closes ranks in the face of a threat from the lower orders. Gertrude's most specific moment of solidarity with Claudius ...
... doth hedge a king | That treason can but peep to what it would' (IV.5.125–6). Notice, though, that the ruling elite closes ranks in the face of a threat from the lower orders. Gertrude's most specific moment of solidarity with Claudius ...
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action actor audience BARNARDO behaviour blood character Christian Claudius Claudius’s Danish dead dear Denmark doth e’en Elizabethan England Enter Hamlet Enter the King Exeunt Exit eyes F reads father fear Fortinbras friends gentleman Gertrude Ghost give God’s hast hath hear heart heaven honour in’t is’t Jephthah judgement Julius Caesar killed King and Queen King Claudius King Hamlet King of Denmark King’s Laertes Laertes’s look madness MARCELLUS marriage means misogyny mother murder nature night Norway o’er Ophelia OSRICK Paul Prescott performance perhaps phrase play play’s PLAYER poison Pollax Polonius Polonius’s pray Presumably Prince Prince Hamlet probably Pyrrhus Q2 and F Q2 reads Quarto rapiers revenge REYNALDO Richard II Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scene SECOND CLOWN seems sense Shakespeare soliloquy soul speak speech sweet sword tell theatre thee There’s thou thoughts tragedy Trumpets Voltemand what’s word