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... soliloquies. The effect is of increasing psychological realism, reaching its greatest heights in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Gradually he discovered ways of adapting the regular beat of the pentameter ...
... soliloquies. The effect is of increasing psychological realism, reaching its greatest heights in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Gradually he discovered ways of adapting the regular beat of the pentameter ...
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... soliloquy that he is disgusted with his mother's hasty second marriage: 'O, most wicked speed, to post | With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!' (I.2.156–7). Then he meets his father's Ghost, who appears to confirm his worst ...
... soliloquy that he is disgusted with his mother's hasty second marriage: 'O, most wicked speed, to post | With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!' (I.2.156–7). Then he meets his father's Ghost, who appears to confirm his worst ...
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... soliloquies, or to Horatio. Further, Bradley says, Hamlet doesn't break with Ophelia in response to the Ghost; she breaks with him later, on her father's instruction. Her joining in the plot against him seems the likely reason for ...
... soliloquies, or to Horatio. Further, Bradley says, Hamlet doesn't break with Ophelia in response to the Ghost; she breaks with him later, on her father's instruction. Her joining in the plot against him seems the likely reason for ...
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... Soliloquies signify interiority, even if they are somewhat stylized; Hamlet's are replete with selfreference, self-questioning, indecision and reviews of the action so far. In dialogue with the other characters he is teasing, deceitful ...
... Soliloquies signify interiority, even if they are somewhat stylized; Hamlet's are replete with selfreference, self-questioning, indecision and reviews of the action so far. In dialogue with the other characters he is teasing, deceitful ...
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... soliloquy ('How all occasions do inform against me', IV.4.9–66; passage in Q2 only); his thoughts on the skulls of the members of various professions (V.1.75–115); and the once theatrically topical discussion of boy actors, 'the little ...
... soliloquy ('How all occasions do inform against me', IV.4.9–66; passage in Q2 only); his thoughts on the skulls of the members of various professions (V.1.75–115); and the once theatrically topical discussion of boy actors, 'the little ...
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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