 Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...  Elements of Criticism - Page 216by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - Business & Economics - 2002 - 321 pages
...Seem to me all the uses of this world! HAMLET (f .2, 129-34) Hamlet makes clear his distaste for his uncle ("My father's brother — but no more like my father than I to Hercules") and his anger over his mother's remarriage less than two months after Hamlet Senior's death ("O, most... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...Like Niobe, all tears, — why she, even she — O [God]! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, 150 Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle....father Than I to Hercules; within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her galled eyes, 155 She married. O, most wicked... | |
 | Henk de Berg - Literary Collections - 2004 - 178 pages
...she — () God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn 'd longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother — but no more like my...father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married — О most wicked... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...the herald Mercury. (III. iv. 55-8) So excellent a king. that was to this Hyperion to a satyr . . . My father's brother. but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. (I.ii.l 39-40. 1 52- S) Similarly. when Hamlet feels the need to summon up an image of heroic resolve.... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...Hamlet brings himself into the equation by contrasting his character with that of the Greek champion: "My father's brother — but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules" (1.2.152-53). Hamlet may commit acts of spontaneous, impulsive violence, as in the killing of Polonius,... | |
 | Robert Weisbrot - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 284 pages
...his day.1" Later Hamlet reviles his uncle Claudius, who became king by murdering Hamlet's father, as My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercides.18 Like the ancient bards; medieval chroniclers; Renaissance writers; and later novelists,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason 150 Would have mourned longer - married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules, within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes She married. O most wicked... | |
 | Lindsay Price - 2005 - 52 pages
...woman! 0, God! A beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer. Married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month! It is not nor it cannot come to good. Footsteps approach. He looks offstage. But break, my heart; for... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 246 pages
...which 'all things foul would wear'. Hamlet is instinctively aware that the world has gone awry; that 'my father's brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules' is a false simulacrum of kingship (1.2.151—2), and that his mother has given warrant to the falsity... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother (but no more like my father, Than I to Hercules). Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked... | |
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