...the whole truth about man, we may be tempted to go back to our Shakespeare again and say to ourselves 'What is this quintessence of dust ? man delights not me, no nor woman neither!' In spite of some frightening possibilities, of which so-called brainwashing is perhaps the worst, it...

...who is, however, imbued with a Montaignesque scepticism: What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,...animals - and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?6 Photius reports in the Life of Pythagoras that Pythagoras attributed the nature of a microcosm...

...how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to...of dust? Man delights not me, no nor woman neither. (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2.2.315-321) Although Shakespeare may have read Saxo, it is unlikely that he...

...how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to...dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither. Shakespeare: Hamlet (Act II Scene 2) Epidemiology Prevalence 2-5% (derived from multiple sources for...

...Shakespeare's Hamlet. The quotation, spoken by Hamlet, concludes with an expression of the hero's despair: "And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me — no, nor woman neither." Good stuff, that Shakespeare! Erasmus (A) was a Christian philosopher; his best-known work is In Praise...

...work that was man (chap. 3, this vol.), could in his next lines lose his confidence and moodily muse: And yet to me, What is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; No, nor woman neither. . . . Hamlet's doubting nature is indicative of the dissolution of the unified Renaissance ideal. Such...

...the final below-actual estimate can completely prick the bubble and return us to what Hamlet feels: And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me no nor woman neither. That enormous crash could only have been achieved by the symmetries of rhetoric building up the tone...

...Shakespeare. In Chapter 9, I quoted Hamlet talking about God-like man, but I omitted the line that follows: "And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me." There you have it, point and counterpoint: Renaissance arrogance and an early expression of the alienation...

...expression at the dawn of the century in a speech of Hamlet: "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving...is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me" (act 2, scene 2, lines 293-98). The awareness of a duality at the heart of things lies behind the "two...

...how express and admirable; in action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals; and yet to me,...is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me.' DANIEL So we'll skip that speech and go right to the killing. The treatment of this, the longest Shakespearean...