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... murder' (I.5.25). King Claudius is right to fear Prince Hamlet. For many commentators the key question is why Hamlet 'delays' his revenge. Tell me quickly, he exhorts the Ghost, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts ...
... murder' (I.5.25). King Claudius is right to fear Prince Hamlet. For many commentators the key question is why Hamlet 'delays' his revenge. Tell me quickly, he exhorts the Ghost, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts ...
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... murdered Desdemona. Perhaps, we might conclude, there is something per verse in Hamlet's nature and situation, whereby he ... murder which is at issue: King Richard encouraged Mowbray to kill Gloucester. The debate is made explicit when ...
... murdered Desdemona. Perhaps, we might conclude, there is something per verse in Hamlet's nature and situation, whereby he ... murder which is at issue: King Richard encouraged Mowbray to kill Gloucester. The debate is made explicit when ...
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... murder and impiety'. (Antonio's Revenge, V.1.10–11, 24–5) The similarities and differences between what Shakespeare writes and what other authors do with similar stories, themes and genres are always instructive. These contemporary ...
... murder and impiety'. (Antonio's Revenge, V.1.10–11, 24–5) The similarities and differences between what Shakespeare writes and what other authors do with similar stories, themes and genres are always instructive. These contemporary ...
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... murder of his father: it is to do with his mother (hence his divided response to Ophelia). Like other little boys, the Prince is presumed to have regarded his father as a rival for the love of his mother. When Claudius murders King ...
... murder of his father: it is to do with his mother (hence his divided response to Ophelia). Like other little boys, the Prince is presumed to have regarded his father as a rival for the love of his mother. When Claudius murders King ...
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... murder. Laertes, enjoined to be calm, asserts that if he has a calm drop of blood, it proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot Even here between the chaste, unsmirchèd brows Of my true mother. (IV.5.119–22) If ...
... murder. Laertes, enjoined to be calm, asserts that if he has a calm drop of blood, it proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot Even here between the chaste, unsmirchèd brows Of my true mother. (IV.5.119–22) If ...
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