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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context 161) Commentary Note for line 613:613 Keepes {wassell} <wassels> and the {swaggring} <swaggering> vp-spring reeles:... > (ed. 1904): “ [. . . ] another touch of northern local colour, such as Shakespeare may have got from his friends among the English players in Germany [ ...
... bably the rare noun <i>upspring</i> indicates some kind of Teutonic dance which Shakespeare introduces as local colour.”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1982 < ...
... 2, p. 133) Schmidt's assertion that the Hüpfauf was apocryphal. Presumably Shakespeare knew of the upspring as a feature of carousals and associated it wit ...
162) Commentary Note for line 617:617 Hora. Is it a custome?... 107): “Custom is mentioned more times in <i>Hamlet</i> than in any other Shakespeare play, and given a full range of meanings, but specific customs are o ...
... e also 617 CN below. By making Claudius follow and Hamlet deplore this 'custom' Shakespeare uses his knowledge of Danish ways not merely for local colour but in ...
... t Horatio, a Dane (124+18, 3826), should not know of the custom. The play shows Shakespeare in two minds about him. In scene one Horatio seemed at home in Denma ...
... heavy-headed revel' [621+1] as a custom incident to the manor. In this passage Shakespeare probably uses the word manor in a double sense, as in [<i>LLL </i>1. ...
164) Commentary Note for line 620:620 And to the manner borne, it is a custome... . Lewkenor, in a passage (immediately preceding an account of Wittenberg) which Shakespeare may well have read, speaks of the drunkenness of the people of Leipz ...
... whole speech of <i>Hamlet</i>, to the entrance of the ghost, I set right in <sc>Shakespeare </sc><i>restor'd</i>, so shall not trouble the Readers again with a ...
... t ‘the disquisition is too long and calm for the awful occasion, and that Shakespeare may have desired it to be left out by the performer on this account. ...
... s whole ‘noble substance' to his undoing. Here we seem to be presented by Shakespeare himself with a formula for the tragic hero: Hamlet. with his excess ...
... ot' (Hunterian Club, p. 21). But though the matter itself was common knowledge, Shakespeare seems to have been particularly influenced here, as later in this sp ...
... The intemperance of the Danes was matter of special notoriety at the time when Shakespeare wrote; and marvellous anecdotes are extant of enormous measures drai ...
... ab><b>Swinish phrase</b>] <sc>Clark & Wright</sc> (ed. 1872): “Could Shakespeare have had in his mind any pun upon ‘Sweyn,' which was a common ...
... unkenness [. . . ]. Probably here, as certainly [in <i>Oth. </i>2.3.76 (1188)], Shakespeare is rebuking this vice in his own countrymen."</para></cn> <cn> <sig ...
... 2d) show how well established this phrase had become in the 16th century before Shakespeare adopted it here and gave it a still wider currency."</para> <br/><h ...
... und only one passage where there is a closer relation in the expression between Shakespeare and the tale; and this one speaks against Saxo. It is . . . ‘T ...
... nvoluted sentence that makes up this speech, asks, “Is it not clear that Shakespeare <i>meant</i> for Hamlet to speak in this labyrinthine manner? Did h ...
... et keeps on talking, his mind is not on what he is saying? Furthermore, did not Shakespeare intend for the audience to lose the thought in the maze of the sente ...
... ees and dregs, dead and unregarded of any man.' What Nashe says of drunkenness, Shakespeare extends from drunkenness to any vice. On his indebtedness Nashe see ...
... f the expression are complex. It has been argued, especially by those who think Shakespeare intended to delete these lines, that he gave up on the speech, leavi ...
... serves attention as an example of an unrevised draft, illustrating perhaps that Shakespeare wrote in phrases and metre first and left sorting out the structure ...
... nnens</sc> (ed. 1773): “<i>T</i>[heobald] would have it <i>mould</i>. <i>Shakespeare restored</i>, p. 33.”</para> <para>Like <sc>Heath</sc>, ignor ...
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