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" Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst 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: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my... "
The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ... - Page 279
by William Shakespeare - 1856
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The Masks of Hamlet

Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
..."beast" is much closer to our own experience, and so more haunting. Hamlet will sense it in himself: I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? In this side of Hamlet's personality, the actor — or the imagining reader — can...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...was the more deceived. 120 HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...What should such fellows as I do, crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your...
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Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time

Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...tendencies which either surround or inhabit him, or both: I am myself indifferent honest, but yet 1 could accuse me of such things that it were better...imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. (3.1.122) The weird oscillation of inner and outer "offences" here can only be understood, I think,...
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Some Necessary Questions of the Play: A Stage-centered Analysis of ...

Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunn'ry. (Ill.i. 120-29)...
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...thou be a breeder of sinners?" (3.1.121). "I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?" (3.1.124). "Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' th' earth? . . .And...
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Shakespeare's World of Death: The Early Tragedies

Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...OPH: I was the more deceived. HAM: Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. (107-130)...
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George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda' Notebooks

George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 576 pages
...417 ff, refers to his monograph, Frank und die Frankisten (Breslau: Schletter, 1868). 'I myself am indifferent honest but yet I could accuse me of such...them shape or time to act them in? - What should such a fellow as I do, crawling between heaven & earth?'1 1271 Epochs Be2 Exodus, 1314-21 [sic], according]...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me 120 of such things that it were better my mother had not...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; us 86. pitch height. 103. honest chaste. 87. regard consideration...
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Hamlet

Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne mc. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. A tiny noise!...
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The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...Ophelia, Hamlet casts the imagination as a kind of mediator linking invisible thoughts to visible deeds: "I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more...imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in" (3.1.124-27). Given the plays brooding over the difficulty of linking "thoughts" and "acts," it is...
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