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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context 851) Commentary Note for line 2818:2818 Of his owne iust remoue, the people muddied... ea of ‘What is M<sc>udd</sc><i>ed</i>, or M<sc>udd</sc><i>led</i> up.' In Shakespeare it is brought to its original spot, when it relates to a person bein ...
... and unwholesome </i>first mean the blood and then what is connected with it in Shakespeare, the mood of the people.]</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1857<tab> </tab><s ...
852) Commentary Note for line 2821:2821 In hugger mugger to inter him: poore Ophelia... aced are better, I do not undertake to prove; it is sufficient that they are <i>Shakespeare</i>'s: If phraseology is to be changed as words grow uncouth by disu ...
... aced are better, I do not undertake to prove; it is sufficient that they are <i>Shakespeare</i>'s: If phraseology is to be changed as words grow uncouth by disu ...
... commonness of it in that usage strongly proves the rashness of some editors of Shakespeare, who thought proper to change it. Ascham writes it <i>hudder-mother< ...
... ow an archaic expression, appears to be used only adverbially with <i>in</i> by Shakespeare's contemporaries and means in secret, concealed with a contemptuous ...
... ,' an alteration we cannot approve of. It must be sufficient that the words are Shakespeare's: if phraseology, says <i>Malone</i>, is to be changed as words gro ...
... hall no longer have the words of any author.—<i>Steevens </i>remarks that Shakespeare probably took the expression from the following passage in Sir Thoma ...
... se was common but may here echo North's <i>Plutarch</i> (Life of Brutus), which Shakespeare had recently used for <i>JC</i>: ‘Antonius thinking . . . that ...
... 01C;secretly, clandestinely. The phrase was common enough (Tilley H805), though Shakespeare does not use it elsewhere; but he could have been reminded of it by ...
... ugger] <sc>Thompson & Taylor</sc> (ed. 2006): “secretly and hastily. Shakespeare's only use of this phrase which, as Steevens points out, he may have ...
853) Commentary Note for line 2832:2832 Like to a murdring peece in many places... a</i> murdering piece.—A <i>murdering piece</i> was the specific term in Shakespeare's time for a piece of ordnance, or small cannon, used in the forecas ...
854) Commentary Note for lines 2836-37:2837 What is the matter?... mselves out to such service is uncertain; but it is plain that it was common in Shakespeare's time, since he gives such a guard to the King of Denmark: [<i>Haml ...
... >Swissers</b>] <sc>Clark</sc> and <sc>Wright</sc> (ed. 1872): “<small>In Shakespeare's time Switzers, or Swiss, were employed to guard the person of the ...
... rs</b>] <sc>Symons</sc> (<i>in</i> Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “In Shakespeare's time the Swiss formed the body-guard of the king of France, as the ...
... > </tab><b>my Swissers</b>] <sc>Kittredge</sc> (ed. 1939): “Switzers] In Shakespeare's time the furnished bodyguards to many foreign princes. The Pope ha ...
... a personal bodyguard.</para><para> “Swiss guards were indeed employed in Shakespeare's time; they served the King of France, and as they do today, the Po ...
855) Commentary Note for line 2839:2839 The Ocean ouer-peering of his list... pt off the spectators at tournaments. It occurs in this sense several tiimes in Shakespeare's plays. ‘I am bound to your niece, sir. I mean, she is the < ...
... eople to waters overflowing their banks is, significantly, a recurrent one with Shakespeare. Cf. <i>Tro</i>. [<sc>1.3</sc>.111-113 (570-72)]; <i>Cor</i>. [<sc>3 ...
... ;impetuous', influenced by the meaning of the word ‘piteous'. But perhaps Shakespeare uses it to mean ‘pitiless'.”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>19 ...
... “Some think this is a form of ‘impetuous' but it is more likely a Shakespearean coinage = ‘pitiless'.”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1988<t ...
... 6): “often emended to 'impetuous' (from Q3), but Edwards retains it as a Shakespearean coinage meaning 'pitiless'. Tronch-Perez notes that 'piteous' is s ...
857) Commentary Note for line 2841:2841 Then young Laertes in a riotous head... a riotous head</b>] <sc>Verity</sc> (ed. 1904): “with a band of rioters. Shakespeare often uses <i>head</i> = ‘an armed force,' especially of rebel ...
... b>head</b>] <sc>Hibbard</sc> (ed. 1987): “insurrection (OED sb. 29). But Shakespeare also has in mind head 17c, meaning ‘a high tidal wave'. In fac ...
858) Commentary Note for line 2842:2842 Ore-beares your Officers: the rabble call him Lord,... >] <sc>Werder</sc> (1907; rpt. 1977, pp. 23-24): <p.23 > “Why does Shakespeare exhibit Laertes quite easily raising the people against the King? Wh ...
... preferred?—The petty revolt stirred up by Laertes was a minor incident in Shakespeare's plot, and had no other significance. It is absurd to suppose that ...
... he usage not present. <i>Wont</i> and <i>custom</i> are not <i>identical</i> in Shakespeare, as can be seen in 1.2.109f. (291f.)]., where <i>custom</i> and <i>h ...
... g to Claudius's). (F.)</para> <para>“The ‘people' does not fare in Shakespeare's plays. We have seen Hamlet's contempt for its judgment [2.2.434-44 ...
... lly misrepresented in those scenes of <i>2H6</i> which are commonly assigned to Shakespeare; and the misrepresentation is the more remarkable because Holinshed, ...
... a very different picture. In short, there seems some ground for attributing to Shakespeare a measure of ‘anti-democratic conviction.' We have it in Spens ...
... i>, 1.12.9 (with Kitchin's note).</para> <para>“We must remember that in Shakespeare's time literature, especially the drama, drew its support very large ...
... 6;Shakespeare' (ed. 1821, vol. vii, p. 209). I must here point out one touch of Shakespeare's art which I have omitted to notice in the text. Immediately there ...
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