 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...it. I loved you not.65 OPHELIA I was the more deceived. 120 HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent...offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do, crawling... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
..."beast" is much closer to our own experience, and so more haunting. Hamlet will sense it in himself: I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...not only as potential cuckold-maker but also as potential mother: Get thee to a nunnery. Why, wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent...things that it were better my mother had not borne me. (3.1.121-24) The implicit logic is: why would you be a breeder of sinners like me? In the gap between... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...tendencies which either surround or inhabit him, or both: I am myself indifferent honest, but yet 1 could accuse me of such things that it were better...offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. (3.1.122) The weird oscillation of inner... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...(2.2.293ff.). He asks the girl he loves why she wishes to be a breeder of sinners, and tells her (3.1.121ff.) I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...things, that it were better my mother had not borne me . . . What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all;... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...his own sinfulness, which is merely the sinfulness of being human. Get thee to a nunn'ry, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent...I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to... | |
 | Joanne Miller - Study Aids - 2013 - 98 pages
...his own ambitious motives A. Act III: Hamlet tells Ophelia that although he is moderately virtuous, "yet I could accuse me of such things that it were...borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious. ..." B. Act III: Hamlet tells Rosencrantz that his "distemper" is because "I lack advancement," meaning... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...relish of it. I loved you not. OPH: I was the more deceived. HAM: Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent...offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...that his inheritance from suckling Gertrude's maternal matter is moral because corporal contamination: "I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse...things that it were better my mother had not borne me" (3.1. 122-24). 10 The original malaise of origin is exacerbated in the next developmental stage of... | |
 | George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 576 pages
...417 ff, refers to his monograph, Frank und die Frankisten (Breslau: Schletter, 1868). 'I myself am indifferent honest but yet I could accuse me of such...offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape or time to act them in? - What should such a fellow as I do, crawling... | |
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Get thee to a nunnery ; Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at... 
