 | Stephen M. Buhler - 2002 - 240 Seiten
...editing. Sure enough, we find Joe delivering part of it to a rapt audience during the first performance: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more (Branagh 1995, 109; 4.4.33-35) Branagh's Hamlet makes the speech a kind of turning point — and a... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 196 Seiten
...particular moment he spoke of her as of an enemy.) "What is a man", asks Hamlet in another passage, "if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more" (rv, iv, 34). (Let us note, by the way, as typical of Hamlet's realistic style, the image of "chief... | |
 | Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 Seiten
...nature' is an oxymoron, a contradiction full of tragic potential. Hamlet says, 'What is a man, /If the chief good and market of his time /Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more' (4.4.34). King Lear registers a similar complaint: 'Allow not nature more than nature needs /Man's... | |
 | Patrick Tucker - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...audience found it a hit too long. you also find that the soliloquy HAMLET: How all occasions doe informe against me, And spur my dull revenge. What is a man If his chiefe good and matker of his time Be hut to sleepe and feede, a heast, no more: is not in the Folio... | |
 | Iván Nyusztay - 2002 - 210 Seiten
...requires the abandoning, the distanciation of a self paralysed by the impasse of double motivation, "How all occasions do inform against me, / And spur my dull revenge" (IV.iv.32-33). The "troubiedness of the heart" of the returned ""The dichotomy of nature and honour... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 Seiten
...you go, my lord? 30 Ham. I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. {Exeunt all except Hamlet.] How all occasions do inform against me. And spur my...his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. 35 Sure, He that made us with such large discourse. Looking before and after, gave us not That capability... | |
 | Felix Escher - 2003 - 252 Seiten
...hilflos wie ein Neugeborenes dazuliegen. Hamlet, der Kopfmensch par excellence, sagt es unzweideutig: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. 2 Was ist der Mensch, wenn sein höchstes Gut und das Ergebnis seiner Lebenszeit nur Schlaf und Essen... | |
 | Andy Lavender - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...military enterprise on which the Norwegian soldiers are embarked. Hamlet's soliloquy in this scene ('How all occasions do inform against me, / And spur my dull revenge'), in which he remotivates himself in the face of Fortinbras's zeal for battle, is also cut. There is... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - 2004 - 210 Seiten
...and ineffaceable. Hamlet, in his deprecatory self-torturings does indeed ask himself the question:— 'What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.' But it is only that he may the more clearly infer that man is no such mere animal, but, on the contrary,... | |
 | R. Clifton Spargo - 2004 - 338 Seiten
...self-remembrance, Hamlet disdains food precisely as a signifier of our too limited human dimension, crying "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his.../ Be but to sleep and feed? — a beast, no more" (4.4. [c.23-25]).25 Indeed Hamlet's disdain for food and for our beastly being is tied closely to his... | |
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How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. 
