The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
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[Footnote 4: He is the only one who has not for the wedding put off his mourning.] [Footnote 5: _lowered_, or cast down: _Fr. avaler_, to lower.] [Footnote 6: 'Plainly you treat it as a common matter--a thing of no significance!' _I_ is constantly used for _ay_, _yes_.] [Footnote 7: He pounces on the word _seems_.] [Footnote 8: Not unfrequently the type would appear to have been set up from dictation.] [Footnote 9: They are things of the outside, and must _seem_, for they are capable of being imitated; they are the natural _shows_ of grief. But he has that in him which cannot _show_ or _seem_, because nothing can represent it. These are 'the Trappings and the Suites of _woe_;' they fitly represent woe, but they cannot shadow forth that which is within him--a something different from woe, far beyond it and worse, passing all reach of embodiment and manifestation. What this something is, comes out the moment he is left by himself.] [Footnote 10: The emphasis is on _might_.] [Footnote 11: Both his uncle and his mother decline to understand him. They will have it he mourns the death of his father, though they must at least suspect another cause for his grief. Note the intellectual mastery of the hypocrite--which accounts for his success.] |
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