 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1998 - 390 pages
...his love for Ophelia, Hamlet hyperbolically challenges that love: "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum" (272-74). Hamlet, in short, will not let Laertes "outface" him. Nor will he allow Laertes to assume... | |
 | Deb Margolin - Social Science - 1999 - 214 pages
...a wind, a time of day . . . and this woman, neither young nor old: 'I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.' And Spalding Gray! You can't criticize him, really! He too is a time of day, a season, a fact.... | |
 | Valeria Wagner - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...utter himself but that will be left to the spectators to pronounce. I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (Vi 265-67)* Hamlet has obviously not managed to leave the stage yet,... | |
 | Carla Mazzio - Civilization, Modern - 2000 - 432 pages
...brothers' wager" (5.2.249). This would make him loving brother to Ophelia as well: "Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum" (5.1.264-66). 4o. Samuel Schoenbaum itemizes John Shakespeare's debts and losses as well as his... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...(3.1.114-19) In the graveyard scene Hamlet declares to all and sundry, I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (5.1.269-71) It seems impossible to discern the genuineness of his affection for Ophelia from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers 260 Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? KING O, he is mad, Laertes. QUEEN 263 For love of God, forbear him. HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou't do. 265 Woo't weep? woo't fight?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...Until my eyelids will no longer wag! Queen O my son, what theme? Hamlet I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum! - What wilt thou do for her? The Tragedie of Hamlet 205 Ham. What, the faire Ophelia? Queene.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 2001 - 632 pages
...of woman's frailty; and his last thought of her is no repudiation: "I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. " In how different a tone rings out the last despairing cry of Troilus: "O Cressidl 0 false Cressidl... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...("I loved you not" [3.1.118-19]), he now declares it over her corpse: I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (5.1.264-66) One's actions demonstrate one's love. Much as Claudius... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...my eyelids will no longer wag. Gertrude O my son, what theme? Hamlet I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum . — What wilt thou do for her? Claudius O, he is mad, Laertes. Gertrude For love of God, forbear... | |
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I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. 
