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301) Commentary Note for lines 1419-20:
1419-20 mee comply with you in {this} <the> garb: | {let me} <lest my> extent to the players,

    ... ether the word &#8216;extent' has not been misprinted for <i>ostent, </i>a word Shakespeare not unfrequently uses, in the sense of external show? The context s ...
302) Commentary Note for lines 1425-6:
1425-6 Ham. I am but mad North North west; when the | wind is Sou-
1426 therly, I knowe a Hauke, from a hand saw.

    ... >] <sc>Atkinson</sc> (1863, pp.721-22):&lt;p.721&gt; &#x201C;In Mr. Donbavand's Shakespeare emendations, in the <i>Athenaeum</i> of the 21st instant, I think he ...

    ... e seen it supported by some passages from any of the books on Falconry to which Shakespeare might have access. I have always thought that Hamlet here meant to i ...

    ... ursuit of a hern by a pair of hawks. The south wind is generally represented by Shakespeare as a wind of evil contagion. Does Hamlet mean that he can recognise ...

    ... tion that Falstaff's sword 'hack'd like a handsaw' (<i>1H4</i> II. iv. 161) led Shakespeare to <i>hawk</i> via a pun on <i>hack</i> appears far-fetched. It ma ...
303) Commentary Note for lines 1444-6:
1444-5 Pol. The best actors in the world, either for Trage|die, Comedy,
1445-6 History, Pastorall, {Pastorall} <Pastoricall-> Comicall, | Historicall Pastorall,

    ... sc> (ed. 1872): &#x201C;In the licence granted to the Globe Company, to which Shakespeare belonged, dated 17 May, 1603, he and his associates are allowed ' fr ...

    ... nlimited] <sc>Zitner</sc> (1983, p. 194): &lt;p. 194&gt; &#x201C;For his part, Shakespeare wrote pastoral-comical in <i>As You Like It,</i> 'tragical-historica ...

    ... even a relevance--to genre theory. There is, in any case, no hard evidence that Shakespeare concerned himself with literary theory or knew any of the writings o ...
304) Commentary Note for lines 1446-7:
1446-7 <Tragicall-Historicall: Tragicall-|Comicall-Historicall-Pastorall:> scene

    ... same, or <i>undivided,</i> all through the piece. But in the Gothic drama, as Shakespeare found and fixed it, the changes of scene are without definite limita ...
305) Commentary Note for lines 1462-3:
1462-3 Ham. Why as by lot God wot, and then you knowe it | came to

    ... old ballad, entitled <i>Jephtha, Judge of Israel.</i> A copy of the ballad, as Shakespeare knew it, was reprinted in Evan's <i>Old Ballads, </i>in 1810; the f ...

    ... old ballad, entitled <i>Jephtha, Judge of Israel.</i> A copy of the ballad, as Shakespeare knew it, was reprinted in Evan's <i>Old Ballads, </i>1810; the first ...
306) Commentary Note for lines 1472-3:
1472-3 chopine, pray God | your voyce like a peece of vncurrant gold,

    ... :135): &#x201C;<i>Chapines</i> (Spanish, and not Italian, as the commentaros on Shakespeare assert) are a kind of clogs with thick cork soles, which the ladies ...

    ... >, p. 49.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1879<tab> </tab><tab> </tab><i>new shakespeare society</i></sc></sigla><hanging><sc>anon</sc></hanging> <para>1472< ...

    ... ing><sc>anon</sc></hanging> <para>1472<b> chopine</b>] <sc>Anon</sc>. (<i>New Shakespeare Society'sTransactions</i> <i>1877-9</i>, pp.472): &#x201C;<i>Sappin: ...
307) Commentary Note for lines 1479-80:
1479-80 Ham. I heard thee speake me a speech once, but it was | neuer acted,

    ... /i>:' the addition, with the aid of Polonius, was a dish to their palate, which Shakespeare did not stick to serve up to them; reck'ning (as well he might) on t ...

    ... <sc>Trench</sc> (1913, pp. 102-3): &lt;p. 102&gt; &#x201C;Why, it is asked, did Shakespeare here introduce a passage quite different in style from what he usual ...

    ... e's version is not taken (see ll. 448-514 LN). This is still true even though Shakespeare may have been influenced by the prominence <i>Dido</i> gives to the ...
308) Commentary Note for lines 1481-2:
1481-2 the million, t'was cauiary to the | generall, but it was as I receaued

    ... owe it upon a better friend, that can better tell how to use it'. Harbage (<i>Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions</i>, p. 292) comments that <i>caviare to th ...
309) Commentary Note for lines 1493-4:
1493-4 beast, {tis} <It is> not so, it beginnes with Pirrhus, | the rugged Pirrhus, he whose
1494 sable Armes,

    ... and Mr. <i>Pope</i>, in his note on this place, have concurred in thinking that Shakespeare produced this long passage with design to ridicule and expose the bo ...

    ... r unnaturally and fantastically affected, we must appeal to Hamlet, that is, to Shakespeare himself in this matter; who, on the reflection he makes upon the pla ...

    ... equence, without any of the affecting notices of humanity. Such is the man whom Shakespeare has judiciously chosen to represent the false taste of that audience ...

    ... ra> <para>Now whether these be bombast or not, is not the question; but whether Shakespeare esteemed them so. That he did not so esteem them appears from his ha ...

    ... d his tears were ready at a slight solicitation. It is by no means proved, that Shakespeare has <i>employed the same thoughts cloathed in the same expressions, ...

    ... und in any instance to be exactly true, what can we infer from thence, but that Shakespeare was sometimes wrong in spite of conviction, and in the hurry of writ ...

    ... ied to that perfection which the Roman poet had conceived</i>.</para> <para>Had Shakespeare made one unsuccessful attempt in the manner of the ancients (that he ...

    ... gh few people, I beliee, will be found agreeing in Dr. Warburton's notion, that Shakespeare had any thoughts of writing a play on the model of the Greek drama, ...

    ... bast. I am pretty clearly of opinion, that the piece in question is the work of Shakespeare himself, and a good deal of it does him no discredit: but he seems t ...

    ... same proportion that the theatrical elevation does above simple nature. Hence Shakespeare has composed the play in Hamlet altogether in sententious rhymes, fu ...

    ... Hamlet's reaction to a real one. Even more remarkably, though less remarked, Shakespeare takes the opportunity of the Player's speech to introduce in another ...

    ... It is strange that distinguished critics have ever seriously maintained that Shakespeare lifted from some old tragedy, his own or another's, a speech so mani ...

    ... of subject does not conceal an essential difference of purpose : the speech in Shakespeare has to stand out from the drama which surrounds it and which is alre ...
310) Commentary Note for line 1499:
1499 Now is he {totall} <to take> Gules horridly trickt

    ... a term in the barbarous jargon peculiar to heraldry, and signifies <i>red</i>. Shakespeare has it again in <i>Timon</i>: &#8216;With man's blood paint the grou ...

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