...reconstructed, even to arranging his study as it had been before the disaster. 2 1 . Hamlet 4.5. 1 24-25: "There's such divinity doth hedge a king, / That treason can but peep to what it would." 22. For more on Emerson's expressed views of the South, where he had visited as a young man, and of...

...did Hamlet (Shakespeare) prefer? 10. When Laertes conies in threatening, Claudius is calm, saying, There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would (Can only look, not act) What well-known belief about monarchs is Claudius describing? Lesson 29: Shakespeare's...

...my father, brands the harlot, Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother. King What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. - Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incens'd. - Let him go, Gertrude. Speak, man. Laertes...

...cuckold to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incensed. — Let him go, Gertrude:Speak, man. Where...

...are overwhelming. When Laertes enters, Claudius rouses our admiration by his cool reception of him: What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts linle of his wilL Tell me, Laertes. Why thou art thus incens'd. Let him go, Gertrude. Speak, man. (iv....

...her (and using the royal pronoun), that she has nothing to fear for him, for divinity protects kings: Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person. There's...treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. (4.5.122-25) In the classical myth, the giants assailed the gods' kingdom by piling mountains...

...was disconcerted by a secret awe, — appearing to verify the allegation in Shakespeare, ' There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, that treason can...but peep to what it would, acts little of its will.' To this story, true or false, Blood added a declaration that he was at the head of a numerous following,...

...the alarm, of this Gentleman or Messenger, as he is called in other editions. Ib. King's speech : — There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. Proof, as indeed all else is, that Shakspeare never intended us to see the King with Hamlet's...

...mystique of sacred kingship is profoundly ambiguous. Hamlet, after all, attributes the sonorous claim that 'There's such divinity doth hedge a king / That treason can but peep to what it would' (4.5.122-3) to a regicide and usurper. The emotions stirred by a pending 'cease of majesty' are similarly...

...deleting, a figurative expression is true of Claudius's unconsciously ironical assertion to Laertes that "There's such divinity doth hedge a king / That treason can but peep to what it would" (4.5.120-21), which becomes, with the picture of a much more dangerous proximity, "That treason dares...