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... Prayer and the proverbial sayings of his day. Shakespeare was popular with his contemporaries, but his commitment to the theatre and to the plays in performance is demonstrated by the fact that only about half of his plays appeared in ...
... Prayer and the proverbial sayings of his day. Shakespeare was popular with his contemporaries, but his commitment to the theatre and to the plays in performance is demonstrated by the fact that only about half of his plays appeared in ...
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... praying; although that may appear over-scrupulous it is not an unreasonable thing to do, if the idea is to punish the King rather than send him to heaven. When someone is skulking behind the arras in Gertrude's chamber Hamlet kills him ...
... praying; although that may appear over-scrupulous it is not an unreasonable thing to do, if the idea is to punish the King rather than send him to heaven. When someone is skulking behind the arras in Gertrude's chamber Hamlet kills him ...
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... praying Claudius, the idea is to forgo the immediate satisfaction of harming your enemy today in order that he will suffer more in the long run. Humanists, on the other hand, are likely to repudiate vengeance – divine and human – as ...
... praying Claudius, the idea is to forgo the immediate satisfaction of harming your enemy today in order that he will suffer more in the long run. Humanists, on the other hand, are likely to repudiate vengeance – divine and human – as ...
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... Prayer. Article 10 asserts: 'Man ... cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God.' Article 17 adds: 'Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby ...
... Prayer. Article 10 asserts: 'Man ... cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God.' Article 17 adds: 'Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby ...
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... prayer and virtuous behaviour we disguise devilish practices. The King picks this up in an aside: How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that ...
... prayer and virtuous behaviour we disguise devilish practices. The King picks this up in an aside: How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that ...
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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