 Seems, madam ! Nay, it is ; I know not " seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of...  Hamlet. Titus Andronicus - Page 17by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...after all, she says, is commonplace. 'Why seems it so particular with thee?' Hamlet pounces on 'seems': Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not 'seems'. 'Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 414 pages
...(and perhaps by his stage position as well),36 Hamlet styles his grief as that which "passes show": Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | Valeria Wagner - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...able to counter it by reversing the relationship between the categories the queen herself introduces: 'Seems', madam? Nay, it is, I know not 'seems'. "Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'haviour... | |
 | Sue Hosking, Dianne Schwerdt - English literature - 1999 - 228 pages
...'particular' about death than Gertrude (I,ii,75) because he possesses the rational faculty his mother lacks: Seems, madam? nay, it is, I know not 'seems. ' 'Tis...[good] mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of fore 'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | Jean Battlo - Appalachian Region - 1999 - 76 pages
...MONA.) LODOCIA. (As the QUEEN:) If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? MONA. (As HAMLET:) Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not 'seems'. Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye. LAUREN. Let's just stop... | |
 | Allen Thiher - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 363 pages
...him, he rebukes her in hnes that show a new sense of interpretive self-consciousness: Seems, madamI Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black. Nor windy suspiration ot torc'd breath, ND, nor the fruitful river in the eye. Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...defending himself and implicitly rebuking her for the same, emphatically denies that he knows "seeming": Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...eternity. HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. QUEEN If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? HAMLET Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." 'Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, so No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, 8i Nor the dejected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...through nature to eternity. Ay, madam, it is common. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? 'Seems', madam? Nay, it is; I know not 'seems'. 'Tis...good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...ted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st...live must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Hamlet Ay, madam, it is common. Gertrude If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Hamlet Seems,... | |
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