My father, in his habit as he lived!
Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!
Exit Ghost William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4
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O, step between her and her fighting soul:
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:
Speak to her, Hamlet. William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4
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Lest with this piteous action you convert
My stern effects: then what I have to do
Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4
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Here is your husband; William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4
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Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man: William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4
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Hamlet praises his father as a paragon of manhood. But probe the language deeper and it may reveal doubts–“seem” (recalling Hamlet’s own distinction between seeming and being?), “assurance of a man” (why would the world need assurance of his manly qualities)?
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KING CLAUDIUS
What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 4 Scene 1
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QUEEN GERTRUDE
To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 4 Scene 1
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Claudius is still determined to keep tabs on Hamlet. Gertrude informs him that Hamlet is disposing of Polonius’s corpse. (Draw apart = remove; nothing to do with drawing and quartering!)
Eugène Delacroix (1835): Hamlet, III, 4 – Hamlet and the slain Polonius’s body.
Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,
This mad young man: William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 4 Scene 1
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