...upon the Ghost's description of the murder but upon Hamlet's comparison of his father and Claudius: "so excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr" (I ii 139-40). King Hamlet is thus associated with light (specifically the sun), whereas Claudius,...

...successful in itself and anticipative of a technique that reaches a high point in Hamlet's soliloquies: That it should come to this But two months dead -...earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month Let me not think on't;...

...his Thoughts on her sudden Forgetfulness of his Father and the Indecency of her hasty Marriage. — That it should come to this! But Two Months dead!...Hyperion to a Satyr! So loving to my Mother! That he permitted not the Winds ofHeav'n To visit her Face too roughly! Heav 'n and Earth! Must I remember?...

...fie, fie! Tis an unweeded garden, 135 That grows to see: things rank and gross in nature Posses it merely. That it should come to this! But two months...this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother 140 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must...

...grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! Hut two months dead — nay, not so much, not two —...a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not bcteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she...

...and not just the beauty of buds. We are disposed to think of Hamlet's description of his father as "so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly" (Ham. 1.11.140-42). Even the most seemingly benign forces of nature, the "eye of heaven," can induce...

...his father and mother ice skating, which visually underlines Hamlet's voice-over memory: "[He was] so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly"17 (1.2.140-42). As this example indicates, Hamlet's video is used primarily as a device for...

...Gertrude's "o'er hasty marriage" coupled with Hamlet's observation that the king loved his wife so much "That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly" (I.ii.141-42) suggests that neither the son, nor the king, may have been fully aware of the familial...

...himself. An eye like Mars. to threaten and command. A station like the herald Mercury. (III. iv. 55-8) So excellent a king. that was to this Hyperion to a satyr . . . My father's brother. but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. (I.ii.l 39-40. 1 52- S) Similarly....

...the father whom he idealizes, and by his mother's overhasty marriage to his uncle whom he despises ("So excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr," 1.2.13940). In part, however, Hamlet's melancholy is unmotivated by any external circumstances, springing...