 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...Claudius and his habits but by an unnamed and unspecified female body that corrupts man against his will: So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), . . . these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being Nature's livery or Fortune's star,... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...observance. This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations— They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our...perform'd at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. (1.4.13-22) In these lines, Hamlet does not contest the notion of national character. He is himself,... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...This heavy headed revel east and west Makes us traduced, and taxed of other nations, They clip [call] us drunkards, and with Swinish phrase Soil our addition,...guilty, (Since nature cannot choose his origin) By their ore-grow'th of some complexion Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...and by Jorstad (1988). But this was centuries after Shakespeare had given this precise description: 'So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...solicitors. 20. addition title added to a man's name to denote From our achievements, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So...them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty 25 (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...either his father's situation or his own — decries "general" or popular judgments on "particular men": So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...(continuing) So, oft it chances in particular men They move off along the corridor. HAMLET (continuing) That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in...not guilty Since nature cannot choose his origin, He is talking as if he were asking questions of himself. HAMLET (continuing) By their o'ergrowth of... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 612 pages
...censure": This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations — They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our...vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth, wherin they are not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and indeed it takes w From our achievements, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So,...them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, 25 Since nature cannot choose his origin, By their o'ergrow th of some complexion, Oft breaking down... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...verdict of the court. Then, in his discourse to Horatio and Marcellus on the sentry platform, comes So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some...not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin — A man is guiltless of his genetic heritage; but note the conclusion Shall in the general censure... | |
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So, oft it chances in particular men, That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,) By the o'er-growth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts... 
