Hamlet Soliloquy: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (2.2) with annotations
Hamlet's Soliloquy: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (2.2)
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Now I am alone.
to him, or he to Hecuba, (530)
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and
The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
A dull and
Like , (540)
A no, not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? breaks my
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,
As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
, I should take it: for it cannot be
and lack gall (550)
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the
With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous,
O, vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very , (560)
Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle: I' (570)
I'll tent him to the quick: if he but ,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil: and the devil hath power
To ass yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
More relative than this: the play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
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On Claudius and the Dumb-Show
"The moment the dumb-show is over, [Claudius] realizes that Hamlet knows the whole truth. The action of the dumb-show is too like the crime which he has himself committed to leave doubt upon that score. If there were any such doubt, the drift of Hamlet's apparently mad talk during the spoken play following would dispel it. And Rosencrantz and Polonius have already mentioned Hamlet's joy at the arrival of the players, his command that they shall give a play, and his desire that the King and Queen shall witness it." William Witherle Lawrence.
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"To lie in the throat was worse than to lie from the lips. Staunton on ii. H. IV. i. 2, quotes from a
curious old Italian treatise on War and the Duello a passage in which the different gradations of giving the lie are enumerated
as the simple "Thou liest"; then, "Thou liest in the throat"; "Thou liest in the Thou liest in the throat
like a rogue as thou art," the last being an insult which could not be passed by without a challenge to combat." Kenneth Deighton. (From his edition of Twelfth Night. Allman & Son.)英语翻译Once upon a time there lived a peasant and a landlord near the forest .One day ,When the peasant was walking through the forest ,he saw a here and shot it ,just at that time came the landlord .He shouted at the peasant ,``This is my forest ,All animals in the forest are mine .if you kill any animal here again ,I`ll kill you .``Then he took the dead hare away from the peasant`s hand .Once later ,the peasant was walking through the forest again .Suddenly he noticed that a bear was jumping on a man ,after taking a careful look ,he found that was the right landlord.``Help kill the bear kill it quickly `` cried the landlord .``Aha ,it`s you `` answered the peasant ,``Sorry ,Ican`t kill your bear ,If I kill it ,you`ll kill me ,`` With these words he went away.
从前在森林附近住着一个农民和一个财主.一天,农民走过林子的时候,看见一只野兔,他射杀了这只兔子,就在这时那个财主走过来,他冲着农民喊：“这片林子是我的,这里所有的动物也是我的.如果下次你再在这里打猎,我就宰了你.”说完,财主从农民手里夺走了那只死兔子.那之后的一天,农民又在林子里走,突然他看见一头熊正向一个人扑去,农民定睛一看,原来那人正是那个财主.“救命!杀了熊,快杀了它!”财主喊道.“啊哈,原来是你呀”,农民回答道,“对不起,我不能把熊杀了,如果我杀了它,你就会杀了我的.”说完这些话农民就走开了.
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