
All Rights Reserved.After he had given him the order to publish and proclaim the words of the covenant, and exhort to obedience to them he showed the prophet the reason of it, and opened to him a secret he was not acquainted with: a conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants Seneca's Tragedies and the Elizabethan Drama Hamlet's Antic Disposition: Is Hamlet's Madness Real? Hamlet's Melancholy: The Transformation of the Prince Hamlet's Humor: The Wit of Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark Shakespeare's Fools: The Grave-Diggers in Hamlet The Death of Polonius and its Impact on Hamlet's Characterīlank Verse and Diction in Shakespeare's HamletĪn Excuse for Doing Nothing: Hamlet's Delayįoul Deeds Will Rise: Hamlet and Divine Justiceĭefending Claudius - The Charges Against the King In Secret Conference: The Meeting Between Claudius and Laertes The Elder Hamlet: The Kingship of Hamlet's Father The Baker's Daughter: Ophelia's Nursery Rhymes Soliloquy Analysis: How all occasions do inform against me. Soliloquy Analysis: Now might I do it pat. Soliloquy Analysis: Tis now the very witching time of night. Soliloquy Analysis: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!. Hamlet Study Quiz (with detailed answers) Philological Examination Questions on Hamlet The Dumb-Show: Why Hamlet Reveals his Knowledge to Claudius More to Explore Hamlet: The Complete Play with Explanatory Notes At the very end, to be sure, the winds fall and cease, and the waves break back on themselves in a mighty subsidence but it is the calm of a supreme exaltation." J. That there is an admixture of compassion in these great scenes is true but the passions with which it is commingled are so agitating, the action so frantic, the consequences so prodigious, that pity is smothered up in dismay. "The fact is, that Shakespeare never, whether in comedy or tragedy, ends in the pathetic key, a point to which I shall return later. The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's PatronĪlchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's Day King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? Life in Stratford (trades, laws, furniture, hygiene)

Life in Stratford (structures and guilds) My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot (65) The imminent death of twenty thousand men,

That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, (60)Īnd let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see To all that fortune, death and danger dare, (55)Įven for an egg-shell. Witness this army of such mass and charge (50) Sith I have cause and will and strength and means Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do ' Looking before and after, gave us not (40)Ī thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom (45)Īnd ever three parts coward, I do not know Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, How all occasions do inform against me, (35)īe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Hamlet's Soliloquy: How all occasions do inform against me (4.4.35-69) Continue to Soliloquy Commentary Hamlet Soliloquy: How all occasions do inform against me (4.4.35-69) with annotations
