| Harriett Hawkins - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...stark, simple language, in contrast to the more elaborate diction and syntax of the earlier passages: "I do not know/ Why yet I live to say, This thing's...cause, and will, and strength, and means/ To do't." Then comes another distinct "turn" to the "examples" that "exhort" him, which leads to a description... | |
| Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...manner of the avenger, but the delay is not for want of strength or opportunity, as Hamlet tells us: I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's...have cause and will and strength and means To do't. (IV.iv.43-46) What Hamlet does not know is that his strength and opportunity are of no avail so long... | |
| Nicholas Brooke - Drama - 2005 - 240 pages
...6-9) This both echoes, and comments on, the last soliloquy, when he had encountered Fortinbras' army: I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's...cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. ending O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! (IV. iv. 43-66) 'Cause'... | |
| Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 430 pages
...Now whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom...cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't. (39^6) In this soliloquy Hamlet contrasts his failure to take action with Fortinbras's ready willingness... | |
| Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event (A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward)...and tender prince Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
| J. W. Mackail - 2007 - 292 pages
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| Anon - Drama - 2008 - 448 pages
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