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611) Commentary Note for line 2151:
2151 Hora. Halfe a share. 2151

    ... e </b>. . .<b> whole one</b>] <sc>Verplanck</sc> (ed. 1847): &#x201C;Actors, in Shakespeare's time, had not salaries, as now. The receipts were divided into sha ...

    ... s Theatre was held by eleven members of the company, on twenty shares; of which Shakespeare owned four, while some others had but half a share each</small>.&#x2 ...

    ... >share</b>] <sc>Furness (</sc>ed. 1877): &#x201C;<sc>Malone</sc>: The actors in Shakespeare's time had not annual salaries as at present. The whole receipts of ...

    ... [<small>In <sc>Halliwell's</sc> very valuable <i>Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare</i>, <sc>1874, </sc>pp. 86-<sc>91</sc>, certain petitions and answer ...

    ... 635</sc>, in the Lord Chamberlain's office, and although in date they are after Shakespeare's day, they nevertheless throw great light on the early financial ma ...

    ... your suppliant amount to 506 <i>li</i>.,' &amp;c. Shankes, who had been one of Shakespeare's fellow-actors, makes an appeal <i>ad misericordiam</i> as &#8216;b ...

    ... ohn Shankes to be &#8216;trampled upon,' as they term it, and their answer is a Shakespearian discovery so recent and so interesting not only in its familiar al ...

    ... ian discovery so recent and so interesting not only in its familiar allusion to Shakespeare as a &#8216;deserveing man,' but also in its reference to the Childr ...

    ... om, then in vogue, of making the theatrical property a joint-stock affair. Thus Shakespeare himself was a stockholder in the Globe theatre, and so hand not only ...

    ... >Symons</sc> (<i>in</i> Irving &amp; Marshall, ed. 1890): &#x201C;The actors in Shakespeare's time had <i>shares</i> in the profits of the theatre, and were pai ...

    ... f <i>shares</i> in theatres in Halliwell-Phillips' Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare, 1874, pp. 86-91, the substance of which is given by Furness in his ...

    ... tab><b>a share</b>] <sc>Deighton</sc> (ed. 1891): &#x201C;&#8216;the actors in Shakespeare's time had not annual salaries as at present. The whole receipts of ...

    ... (ed. 1939): &#x201C;Horatio speaks with his customary mild humour (see 28). In Shakespeare's time each regular member of a company of players had his proportio ...
612) Commentary Note for line 2152:
2152 Ham. A whole one I.

    ... o more than&#8212;I think myself entitled to a whole share.&#8212;The actors in Shakespeare's time had not annual salaries as at present. The whole receipts of ...
613) Commentary Note for line 2156:
2156 A very very paiock. 2156

    ... will you be able to defend us?</i> But, with Submission, in this Passage of <i>SHAKESPEARE</i>, there is not the least Mention made of the <i>Eagle</i>, unless ...

    ... on account of his gay Feathers. But, with Submission, in this Passage of our <i>Shakespeare</i>, there is not the least Mention made of the <i>Eagle</i> in Anti ...

    ... on account of his gay Feathers. But, with Submission, in this Passage of our <i>Shakespeare</i>, there is not the least Mention made of the <i>Eagle</i> in Anti ...

    ... nens</sc> (ed. 1773): &#x201C;<i>P</i>. conjectures <i>peacock</i>, and that <i>Shakespeare</i> alludes to a fable of the birds chusing a king; instead of the e ...

    ... cock</i>, proposed by Mr. Theobald, I cannot help thinking, with Mr. Pope, that Shakespeare alluded to the well-known fable of the birds, who preferred that vai ...

    ... ocke</i>. The quarto, 1604, has <i>paiock</i>; the folio, 1623, <i>paiocke</i>. Shakespeare, I suppose, means, that the king struts about with a false pomp, to ...

    ... Queen Elizabeth's time, which, as we see in another place, seemed to figure in Shakespear's imagination as something abundantly ridiculous. The Bastard, in Kin ...

    ... 01C; &#8216;A very very Peacock, Paddock, Peacock, &amp;c. &amp;c.' Assume that Shakespear made Hamlet talk like a Dane of the beginning of the 16th century, an ...

    ... nd <i>Polack</i> was the common Danish term of abuse or dislike. It was rife in Shakespear's time: and I believe it may be heard even now. the latest instance o ...

    ... ow we sail: This evening we drink.'</para> <para>&#x201C;Of course, if I were a Shakespearean commentator I should suggest this reading&#8212;not because I thou ...

    ... rean commentator I should suggest this reading&#8212;not because I thought that Shakespear wrote it (for the preliminary assumption is doubtful); but because it ...

    ... , English word. </para> <para>&#x201C;The following is a well-know extract from Shakespear&#8212;[quotes 3.2.281-4 (2153-6)]</para> <para>&#x201C;The word indic ...

    ... yce's note on the first of the foregoing passages.</para> <para>&#x201C;Whether Shakespear had means of knowing that it was a term of abuse is another question; ...

    ... silver coin of that value in Queen Elizabeth's time, which seemed to figure in Shakespeare's imagination as something abundantly ridiculous. See <i>King John</ ...

    ... ok place towards the close of the sixteenth century. <sc>Anonymous</sc> (<i>New Shakespearian Interpretations</i>, Edin. Rev. Oct. <sc>i872</sc>): All agree tha ...

    ... the popular belief, of the time. The most popular manual of natural history in Shakespeare's day gives the following account: &#8216;And the pecocke is a bird ...

    ... <i>The Edinburgh Review</i>, October, 1872, shows that in the popular belief of Shakespeare's time the peacock had a very bad character,' being, in fact, the ac ...

    ... i> down to <i>hiccups,</i> will be found apud Furness. Prof. Baynes, in his New Shakespearian Interpretations in The Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1872, has endeavoure ...

    ... w <i>pea-jock</i> came to be altered to <i>pa-jock</i> (<i>paiock</i>), and how Shakespeare could have become acquainted with an idiom used the north of Scotlan ...

    ... <para><small>&#x201C;If the word be not a misprint, and be drawn, as so many of Shakespeare's misunderstood words were, from the Keltic, a possible, though not ...

    ... aiock</b>] <sc>Bryant</sc> (ed. 1888): &#x201C;&#8216;In the natural history of Shakespeare's time,' says the writer of the article &#8216;New Shakespeare Inter ...

    ... tural history of Shakespeare's time,' says the writer of the article &#8216;New Shakespeare Interpretations' (<i>Ed, Rev.</i>, Oct. 1872), &#8216;the word peaco ...

    ... ;nician, and Swedish being laid under contribution, though one may wonder where Shakespeare got his knowledge of these not very generally known languages. The m ...

    ... writer in the <i>Ed. Rev</i>. for Oct. 1872 says that in the natural history of Shakespeare's time the bird was the accredited representative of inordinate prid ...

    ... t, the &#8216;pajock' of the modern text. All that happened, I believe, is that Shakespeare spelt &#8216;peacock' without an &#8216;e' in an old-fashioned manne ...

    ... e peacock had an evil reputation for cruelty and lust in the natural history of Shakespeare's day, and perhaps the poet had this in mind.&#x201D;</para></cn> <c ...

    ... e mere existence of a Scottish form <i>pea-jock</i> cited by Dyce does not make Shakespeare's use of it very likely. More plausibly Dover Wilson supposes a misr ...

    ... elt, gave not difficulty in the five indubitable instances of its occurrence in Shakespeare texts. Among many other suggestions are <i>paddock</i>, toad, which ...

    ... aiock</b>] <sc>Edwards</sc> (ed. 1985): &#x201C;There seems to be no doubt that Shakespeare wrote &#8216;paiock' and it is surely straining things too far to sa ...
614) Commentary Note for lines 2158-59:
2158-9 Ham. O good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for | a thousand
2159 pound. Did'st perceiue?

    ... h about my father's death;<b> pound</b>, for the concrete sum, as frequently in Shakespeare.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1904<tab> </tab><sc>ver</sc></sigla ...
615) Commentary Note for line 2164:
2164 Ham. {Ah ha,} <Oh, ha?> come some musique, come the Recorders, {H3v}

    ... nstrument it had evidently a mouthpiece (Natural History, cent. ii &#167; 161). Shakespeare uses the word again in <i>MND</i> [5.1.123 (1921)]: &#8216;He hath p ...

    ... y on the success of the Gonzago play, does Hamlet call for the recorders? True, Shakespeare knew that recorders would be needed for the scene with Rosencrantz a ...
616) Commentary Note for line 2165:
2165 For if the King like not the Comedie, 2165

    ... cess of misquotation and rhymes where Kyd had not rhymed' (A. Clutton-Brock, <i>Shakespeare's Hamlet</i>, 1922, p. 17).&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1939<tab ...
617) Commentary Note for line 2172:
2172 Guyl. Is in his retirement meruilous distempred.

    ... mind. Hamlet takes it up as if meaning disordered in body; both senses occur in Shakespeare.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1903<tab> </tab><sc>rlf3</sc></sigl ...
618) Commentary Note for line 2174:
2174 Guyl. No my Lord, <rather> with choller,

    ... view of the play episode as a grievous insult to the King is confirmed, see <i>Shakespearean Tragedy</i> (London; 1904, repr. 1962), p.109, note.&#x201D;</para ...
619) Commentary Note for lines 2175-78:
2175-6 Ham. Your wisedome should shewe it selfe more {richer} <ri-|cher> to signifie
2176-7 this to {the} <his> Doctor, for, for mee to put him | to his purgation, would
2177-8 perhaps plunge him into <farre> | more choller.

    ... c>Thompson &amp; Taylor</sc> (ed. 2006): &#x201C;much more rich or resourceful. Shakespeare and his contemporaries often use double comparatives (see Blake, 3.2 ...
620) Commentary Note for lines 2185-89:
2185-6 Guyl. Nay good my Lord, this curtesie is not of | the right breede, if 2185
2186-7 it shall please you to make me a {wholsome} <whol-| some> aunswere, I will doe your
2187-8 mothers commaundement, | if not, your pardon and my returne, shall
2188-9 be the end of | <my> busines.

    ... tesie</b>] <sc>Andrews</sc> (ed. 1993): &#x201C;Courtesy. But here as elsewhere Shakespeare plays on <i>cur</i> (see <i>Breed</i> in line 341 [2185]).&#x201D;</ ...

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