 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...Fortinbras's dynamic self-assertion, Hamlet determines to initiate a resolute course of action: "O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" (IV.iv.65-66).6 Having thus rededicated himself to his father's dread command, he exits, and we do... | |
 | Peter Iver Kaufman - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 194 pages
...("what is a man"; "how stand I then") share the script with assertions promising fresh determination: "from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (4.4.33, 56, 65-66). Hamlet's record of stalling and selfdeprecation excuses readers' and playgoers'... | |
 | Ray Monk - Philosophers - 1996 - 728 pages
...were not immediately repressed - the attitude, for example, expressed by Hamlet when he exclaims: O! from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! Now this, as Russell points out, 'is not a kindly sentiment', and the paper ends with Russell's re-affirmation... | |
 | Mike Royston - Education - 1998 - 246 pages
...as a result of his interview with her, as he shows in the scene shortly after when he decides: 65 'O from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.' The difference between the Hamlet who promised to 'sweep' to revenge in Act I and the Hamlet who actually... | |
 | Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...the split between his mind and body, noting the "Excitements of my reason and my blood" (4.4.58): "O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (11. 6S-66).64] In this humor the penetrative urge is inescapable, and the violence barely under control.... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1998 - 390 pages
...his return in letters he has written. He is presumably intent on carrying out his resolve of 4.4: "O from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth." While one son has responded on the instant to the news of his father's murder, the other has returned... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! [4.4.46-66] .le sees but does not see. In some way, Fortinbras represents where he wants to go, what... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...open for the acceptance of Fortinbras's example and the correct version of the Polish solution: "O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" (65-66). So Hamlet, like Fortinbras, acquiesces in the form of the test. "Poland" becomes the metaphor... | |
 | Mary Thomas Crane - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 276 pages
...egg-shell," Hamlet concludes that such a policy does make action possible. Thus, Hamlet's resolution — "O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" (4.4.65-66) — signals his willingness at least to try on the language and role of the conventional... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...less aware of the absurdity. The speech rises to a striking climax, with a touch of the claptrap: "O, from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!" (4.4.66-67). This sense of climax is exploited in the Kenneth Branagh film version: Branagh's voice... | |
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... and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough... 
