...Claudius says of the deranged Ophelia, "mere beasts." Which is the same notion that torments Hamlet: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his...time / Be but to sleep and feed? / A beast, no more." He wants for himself, and admires in others, the ability to act rationally: "Give me that man / That...

...riecheggia in questo paragrafo il famoso monobogo in cut Amleto dà sfogo ai suoi propositi di vendetta. <<What is a man, if his chief good and market of his...time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more>>. 4. <<Nati... servirlix': E un verso di Edmund Young, <<Born for their use, they live but to oblige...

...individual and collective existences, has become our major concern? Have we forgotten the Bard's warning: 'What is a man, / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.'?9 These are economic questions that are too serious to be left to economics. For an answer to...

...soul-inspiring and ennobling in this pursuit of the mind if it is followed by men of such spiritual ardour. Sure He that made us with such large discourse Looking before and after, gave us not This capability and Godlike reason To fust in us unused94 Philosophical speculation is something more...

...concerns him. The keywords are still intellectual: "reason," "thinking," "thought," "wisdom," and "cause." What is a man, If his chief good and market of his urne Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...

...way, Hamlet inwardly welcomes another delay, producing a self-deluding reason for leaving England: "How all occasions do inform against me, / And spur my dull revenge" (4.4.32-33). In his usual fashion in the remainder of the speech Hamlet diverts attention from his...

...attempts to think his way into action, and to pinpoint and address deficiencies in his self. He muses, "What is a man/ If his chief good and market of his time/Be but to sleep and feed?" (Shakespeare 1992: 203). Like Descartes, Hamlet recognizes that "man"...

...of mankind which he has held throughout the play. Man is more than fleshly, more than a beast: . . . What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? A beast, no more ! (IV, iv, 33-5) He has told us before that a beast lacks that 'discourse of reason' which a man has....

...order. This tradition is seen by Richard O'Sullivan5 to be reflected by Shakespeare in the passage : What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast no more. Since He that made us with such large discourse Looking before and after, gave us not That capability...

...(138). For both eras the futility of human endeavor produced the dilemma of the dispirited Hamlet: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his...time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more" (138, and see Hamlet IV.iv.33-35). Again seeming to describe Victorian England as much as Lutheran...