 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 Seiten
...imperfections on my head. O horrible! O horrible! Most horrible ! 80 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 Seiten
...sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven... | |
 | John Russell - 1995 - 260 Seiten
...but secondary injunction, and one that, as we shall see, is conveniently separable from the first: "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest" (Iv82-83). And it adds an ancillary caution: "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive... | |
 | 1996 - 264 Seiten
...The two faces close together now. THE GHOST (continuing) If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But howsoever thou pursuest this act, He is especially gentle now. Regretful, compassionate.... | |
 | Herbert Christ, Michael Legutke - 1996 - 376 Seiten
...unnatural murder. But howsomever thou pursues this act.... If thou hast nature in thee bear it not, Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest Taint not thy mind nor let thy mother aughtleave her to heaven. Remember me!! RAINER E. WICKE... | |
 | Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - 1996 - 414 Seiten
...ghost is itself focused not on the past crime of regicide but on the ongoing sexual transgression: "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest" (1.5.82-83). Even in the later Mousetrap scene, Claudius is hardly the observed of all observers;... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1996 - 224 Seiten
...seeming-virtuous queen. . . . O horrible! O horrible! most horrible! If thou has nature in thee, bear it not, Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.37 An offence - incest, marriage in a prohibited degree - but (as in the case from the court... | |
 | Marcus Walsh - 2004 - 244 Seiten
...imperfections on my head: O horrible! o horrible! moft horrible! If thou haft nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned inceft. But, howfoevcr thou purfu'ft this aft, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy fool contrive Againft thy mother... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 334 Seiten
...the Ghost itself focuses not on the past crime of regicide but on the ongoing sexual transgression: "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest" ( 1 .5.82— 83). Even in the later Mousetrap scene, Claudius is hardly the observed of all... | |
 | Carla Mazzio - 2000 - 432 Seiten
...the son envisages it as a "nasty sty" (3.4.94). Hamlet does his best to obey the ghost's injunction, "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest" (1.5.82-83) when he bids his mother, "[G]o not to my uncle's bed" (3.4.161). Yet the play's... | |
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Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To... 
