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... hand, the idea that he delays is firmly planted in the text when he accuses himself of neglecting his task. 'How all occasions do inform against me | And spur my dull revenge!' he exclaims (IV.4.32–3), contrasting his own prevarication ...
... hand, the idea that he delays is firmly planted in the text when he accuses himself of neglecting his task. 'How all occasions do inform against me | And spur my dull revenge!' he exclaims (IV.4.32–3), contrasting his own prevarication ...
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... hands. Observe that this is not a very generous programme, however: as with Hamlet's sparing of the praying Claudius ... hand, are likely to repudiate vengeance – divine and human – as primitive, and to look for a more productive way of ...
... hands. Observe that this is not a very generous programme, however: as with Hamlet's sparing of the praying Claudius ... hand, are likely to repudiate vengeance – divine and human – as primitive, and to look for a more productive way of ...
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... hands of the whole business. So he plays with Osrick (this scene seems purposefully desultory) and competes recklessly with Laertes (V.2), makes no plan against the King. The final killing occurs in a burst of passionate inspiration ...
... hands of the whole business. So he plays with Osrick (this scene seems purposefully desultory) and competes recklessly with Laertes (V.2), makes no plan against the King. The final killing occurs in a burst of passionate inspiration ...
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... hands, a book of 'words, words, words' (II.2.193), theatrical practitioners must conjure up and populate a three-dimensional world. In the 400 years since its premiere Hamlet has probably been the most frequently performed of all ...
... hands, a book of 'words, words, words' (II.2.193), theatrical practitioners must conjure up and populate a three-dimensional world. In the 400 years since its premiere Hamlet has probably been the most frequently performed of all ...
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... hand with Hamlet in an inversion of their earlier talk of 'fishmongers' and of crabs going backwards (II.2.171–219) in which the young man ran rings around the older. Polonius is the first person Hamlet has ever killed; in Act V, scene ...
... hand with Hamlet in an inversion of their earlier talk of 'fishmongers' and of crabs going backwards (II.2.171–219) in which the young man ran rings around the older. Polonius is the first person Hamlet has ever killed; in Act V, scene ...
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