 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Hamlet Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c] Claudius Come, Hamlet,... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 382 pages
...specially in respect of religious ideas and attitudes in early modern England. HAMLET'S SPECIAL PROVIDENCE We defy augury. There is a special providence in the...it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows aught, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (Hamlet 5.2.215-20)21 [God is]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...and is, therefore, improper in the mouth of Cesar. 43. Will come, when it will come] Compare, Hamlet: 'If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come...aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes.' — V, ii, 231-235. — ED. 45. Augurers] WALKER (Crit., ii, 49): It seems possible that in this passage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?61 The Tragedie of Hamlet 217 the Foyles... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron, Rebecca Barnes - Drama - 2001 - 116 pages
...and Laertes's plans, although Hamlet has a feeling of resignation which he expresses in these terms: If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (Act V, Sc. ii, lines 214-16) When Hamlet meets Laertes prior to their fencing match, he apologises... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...shapes our ends," he praised acting rashly. But, now, he seems to undermine the basis for acting at all: If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (5.2.216-18) Since the time of everyone's death is determined, Hamlet says, all anyone can do is learn... | |
 | Wallace Earle Stegner - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 516 pages
...DeVoto went to Brandt. This Week approved, for its "Words to Live By" series, a gloss on Hamlet's words: "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all." DeVoto said he thought the final phrase the greatest statement in English. And he was prepared to live... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...among overturned chairs, listening as the actor playing Hamlet says, with immense and insistent calm, "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." In their original context, these words invite one to speculate about secret plots, hidden enemies,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Hamlet: Not a whit; we defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (V, ii, 222) The accent is exactly Byronic. 'It is no matter', 'Let be': Byron's own writings... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...before the end witness a profound acceptance of death : Not a whit, we defy augury: there 'sa special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...all : since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. (v. ii. 230) Here Hamlet is at peace, at last: at peace with death.... | |
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tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all. 
