19 Metaphors for hamlets

Shakespeare in his one sceptic tragedy has to desert the pure tragic form, and Hamlet remains the beau-ideal of "the poetry of doubt."

And if anything is to be said about Hamlet, beyond what Shakespeare has said about him, I should say that Hamlet was an Englishman too.

A HAMLET without delicacy is quite as intolerable a spectacle as a Grande Duchesse without decency.

" Hamlet was by far his greatest triumph, although he would not admit it himselfpreferring in some moods to declare that his finest work was done in Macbeth, which was almost universally disliked.

thus I did bespeake Lord Hamlet is a Prince out of thy Starre, This must not be: and then, I Precepts gaue her,

Hamlet's on suicide is a famous passage.

Two days later I had a letter from the nurse telling me that poor Hamlet was deadthat just before she died, with closed eyes, and gasping for breath, she sent her love to her "dear Miss Terry," and wanted me to know that the tall lilies I had brought her on my last visit were to be buried with her, but that she had wiped the coral and amber beads and put them in cotton-wool, to be returned to me when she was dead.

To have been capable of the kind of action most of his critics would demand of a man, Hamlet must have been the weakling they imagine him.

Hamlet was a wise man.

The little hamlet had become a spring of light in the darkness.

Foot-paths led among this meagre vegetation, in divers directions; and as the hamlet at the Quarantine-Ground was the point whence they all diverged, it required a practised guide to thread their mazes, without a loss of both time and distance.

Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be.

By such a change as this, Hamlet becomes a rational and enjoyable play.

But I made up ma mind, lang ago, that Hamlet was nae for me.

* Hamlet was a Sulphite; Polonius a Bromide.

euery foole can tell [Sidenote: 143] that: It was the very day, that young Hamlet was [Sidenote: was that very] borne, hee that was mad, and sent into England,

The English, for whom the play was written, know that Hamlet is Hamlet, and that Shakespeare was thinking of a young man, not of the pomposities of national ambition.

" "Yes," said Frank, "Guy's Hamlet is quite the funniest thing on the face of the earth.

"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her." HAMLET.

19 Metaphors for  hamlets