| Archibald MacLeish - Poetry - 1985 - 548 pages
...faces Have pity upon us! Ophelia, crazed by the death of Polonius, laments, forgetting him, her loss. How should I your true love know From another one? By his silence in our hearts, By the empty room where he is gone. Who will overhear our soliloquies? We are... | |
| Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.' Dante Gabriel Rossetti AN OLD SONG ENDED 'How should I your true love know From another one?' 'By his cockle-hat and staff And his sandal-shoon.'1 'And what signs have told you now That he hastens home... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...3.487-88 (50:25-26). My cockle hat ... my sandal shoon - Cf. the ballad Ophelia sings when she runs mad: "How should I your true love know / From another one?...By his cockle hat and staff / And his sandal shoon" (Hamlet IV. v. 23-26). The cockle hat (with a scallop shell as a sign of pilgrimage) and the staff... | |
| Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...interruption.) Ophelia: Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? Queen: How now, Ophelia! Ophelia: How should I your true love know From another one?...By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon. Queen: Alas! sweet lady, what imports this song? Ophelia: Say you? nay, pray you, mark. He is dead... | |
| Julia Bolton Holloway - History - 1992 - 352 pages
...Plates Ia,c,IVa,VIIId, XX), and were remembered even in the poetry written by Protestant Shakespeare: "How should I your true love know From another one?...By his cockle hat and staff And his sandal shoon." The scallop or cockle shell, usually associated with Venus, has no scriptural significance and its... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...OPHELIA. OPHELIA Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark? QUEEN How now, Ophelia? OPHELIA [.$i«£J:] How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon.116 QUEEN Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? OPHELIA Say you? Nay, pray you mark. [Swg5:]... | |
| Herbert R. Coursen - Performing Arts - 1993 - 212 pages
...white candles flicker in the foreground, illuminating the Queen's face as Ophelia continues to sing: How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff And his sandal shoon. (IV. 4. 23-26) Gertrude's question — "Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? — is pro forma,... | |
| Václav Havel - Czech drama - 1989 - 112 pages
...— they'll help you — everything will be all right again — you'll see . . . MARKETA (singing): How should I your true love know From another one?...By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon. (MARKETA vanishes to the right. Offstage the sound of her singing can still be heard, gradually fading... | |
| Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...itself in fearing to be split. QUEEN. How now, Ophelia? OPHELIA (sings). How should I your true-love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff And his sandal shoon. QUEEN. Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? OPHELIA. Say you? Nay, pray you mark. He is dead and... | |
| Leslie C. Dunn, Nancy A. Jones - Music - 1994 - 278 pages
...Shakespeare and the Question of Theory (New York and London: Methuen, 1985), pp. 77-94. Ophlelia}. Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark? Queen. How now, Ophelia? Oph. (sings) How should 1 your true love know From another one! By his cockle hat and staff And his sandal... | |
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