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...about himself. He must know himself. Hamlet speaks to Ophelia:"I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts...imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in" (3.1.126—29). Is he all these? Certainly yes, if measured by the yardstick of his conscience alone....

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...of various possible parts. He tells Ophelia that he has "more offences at [his] beck than [he has] thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in." Hamlet is all potentiality. He is capable of Cleopatra's "infinite variety" in a negative as well as...

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...Ophelia and himself too, are awry: 'What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven ? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.' If Hamlet's wit here as elsewhere seems malicious, it is because it inflicts pain; but that pain is...

...achievement: Sweet Revenge, by Thomas Henry King. He shouldn't linger. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in. Her eyes flew open, "What..." He filled her mouth with his flicking tongue mingling his breath with...

...such things that it were better my mother had not born me. 125 I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts...as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are 1 30 arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father? Oph. At...

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...such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. (HamZctIII...