 My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, 90 And tediousness the limbs and outward...  Shakespeare's Hamlet, herausg. von K. Elze - Seite 31von William Shakespeare - 1857 - 272 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Haley - 1993 - 332 Seiten
...IH.i.lSOf.), is not expanded. Courtiership and reflexivity in Polonius's self-caricature become merely gross: My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...time. Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. (Ham. H.ii.86-89) 17. Daniel Javitch, Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England (Princeton: Princeton... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 Seiten
...but the main, His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage. KING. Well, we shall sift him. POLONIUS. My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Mad I call it, for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go.... | |
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 | 1996 - 264 Seiten
...urgent. But POLONIUS knows he has them in his thrall. Documents are being signed. POLONIUS (continuing) to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is,...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, I will be brief. The signing is over. ATTENDANTS leave. CLAUDIUS and GERTRUDE are very pissed off with... | |
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