...witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. He says this with ominous relish. HAMLET (continuing) 0 heart, lose not thy...

...lordship," bows, and goes out right. Hamlet stands center: "'Tis now the very witching time of night,/ . . . now could I drink hot blood,/ And do such bitter business as the day/ Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother."251 He starts to exit left, but then pauses and touches the chair where his...

...fired up by the play-wirhin-the-play, he momentarily finds the style of the traditional stage-revenger: Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (3.Z379-81) He is as capable of violent action as any other revenger - wimess his casual lugging of...

...(Less, perhaps, a sexual complex than a "Nerosis.") Here is Hamlet, on his way to his mother's chambers: Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. 0 heart, lose not thy nature. Let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm...

...his guilt, Hamlet shows signs that he will 'sweep to my revenge': 'Now could I drink hot blood, 25 And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.' He only goes to his mother's closet because he has been commanded to, on Claudius's instructions (via...

...l'instar de Titus. Il se contente de mots, s'adonnant seulement à des exclamations inquiétantes comme "Now could I drink hot blood, / And do such bitter business as the day/Would quake to look on" (III.2.373-375). Polonius, le double ridicule de Claudius, qu'il tue par...

...time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out (Shudders) Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (Overwhelmed) Owwweee, can you imagine being that evil-angry at someone? (Long pause.) LAUREN. Yeah....

...involving some extraordinarv physical changes. Later, Hamlet must convince an audience that he could ...drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (ffl.ii.380-2) Suiting action to these words, and using all the 'modesty of nature' (III.ii.20), an...

...so well commingled | That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger | To sound what stop she please', 'Now could I drink hot blood, | And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on', 'O, from this time forth | My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth' (3.2.66-9, 3.2.379-81, Q2 4.4.56-7)....

...fluently the violent, sanguinary language of Senecan revenge; he threatens to dislocate natural processes: 'Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day | Would quake to look on' (3. 2. 379-81). At times his deeds match his words and he appears to grow into the part. Refusing to...