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51) Commentary Note for lines 1137-39:
1137 To the Celestiall and my soules Idoll, the most beau-
1137-9 tified O|phelia,| that's an ill phrase, a {vile} <vilde> phrase,

    ... </sc></hanging> <para><sc>Stubbs</sc> (1736, p. 35): &#x201C;Hamlet's Letter to Ophelia, which Polonius reads, is none of the best Parts of this Play, and is, I ...

    ... > means simply <i>beautified</i>; but Polonius considers it as implying that <i>Ophelia's</i> beauty was the effect of it.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>17 ...

    ... s... phrase</b>] <sc> Becket</sc> (1815, p. 33): &#x201C;&#8216;Most beautified Ophelia.' It is not Shakspeare who calls the <i>phrase</i>, (or rather <i>term</ ...

    ... writing a love-letter 'to the celestial and my soul's idol, the most beautified Ophelia' [1137]. Polonius interjects 'That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase: "bea ...
52) Commentary Note for line 1203:
1203 Enter Hamlet <reading on a Booke>.

    ... onius's plot in order to provide an explanation for his subsequent behaviour to Ophelia (see esp. <i>WHH</i>, 101-14). But the belief that Hamlet's attitude t ...
53) Commentary Note for line 1211:
1211 Ham. Excellent <excellent> well, you are a Fishmonger.

    ... air with him. Presently, however, Hamlet discources on procreation, connecting Ophelia with his talk. Perhaps the following from Platt's <i>Jewell House</i>, 1 ...

    ... interviews of Hamlet with Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the Players, Ophelia, etc., and no wonder, with their imperfect and incorrect comprehension o ...

    ... ughter&gt;breeding (conception). Thoughts of mating and breeding, focusing on Ophelia, are seen to haunt Hamlet's mind. this 'method' of exploiting his madn ...

    ... dness does not of course imply that Hamlet must be aware of Polonius's plan for Ophelia ; to suppose so would be to misunderstand the 'method'. What Hamlet <i ...

    ... t Hamlet <i>is</i> all the time (even obsessively) aware of is that Polonius is Ophelia's father. Cf. below ll. 399ff., where, with the fishmonger and his daug ...

    ... e converse illustration. All this prepares for the putting of the question to Ophelia herself (III. i. 121-2). For fuller discussion, see 'Hamlet and the Fi ...
54) Commentary Note for lines 1219-20:
1219-20 good kissing carrion. | Haue you a daughter?

    ... ed the passage &#8216;purposely obscure,' but understood the reference to be to Ophelia and Polonius&#8212;- the former as bred out of the latter, &#8216;a dead ...

    ... ed maggots in a dead dog, which dead dog is a good kissing carrion, why may not Ophelia have been produced by such carrion as Polonius? Such is Coleridge's int ...

    ... notion seems to be, if Hamlet likens Polonius to carrion, he necessarily likens Ophelia to the offspring of carrion. In a case of such difficulty it is at all ...

    ... auen</i>], and to annoy Polonius, might not the sun breed in the equally tender Ophelia, who ought therefore not to expose herself to the sun.')&#x201D;</para>< ...

    ... ar-kissing arguments.' Hamlet ironically justifies the severance by Polonius of Ophelia from himself: all the world is evil, even the sun has the basest propens ...
55) Commentary Note for lines 1368-9:
1368-9 target, the Louer shall | not sigh gratis, the humorus Man shall end

    ... who ends his part as &#8216;most secret and most grave'; the grave-digger; and Ophelia, who speaks her mind in madness somewhat too freely.&#x201D; </para></cn ...
56) Commentary Note for lines 1451-2:
1451-2 Ham. O Ieptha Iudge of Israell, what a treasure had'st | thou?

    ... the reference to Jephthah "is clearly a condemnation of Polonius's treatment of Ophelia, . . . James Black ['Hamlet's Vows,' <i>Renaissance and Reformation</i> ...
57) Commentary Note for lines 1540-41:
1540-1 for a Iigge, or a tale of bawdry, or he | sleepes, say on, come to Hecuba.

    ... e. From his use of this word again in Polonius's presence (III.2:) in answer to Ophelia, who telling his he is merry, he says, &#8216;O, your only jig maker,' i ...
58) Commentary Note for lines 1646-7:
1646-7 Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Ro | sencraus, Guyl-
1647 densterne, <and> Lords.

    ... ehline> <para><ehtln>1646-7</ehtln><tab> </tab><i>Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Ro</i> <F1BR/> <i>sencraus, Guyl-</i></para> <para>1647<tab> </tab><i>d ...
59) Commentary Note for line 1710:
1710 Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the question,

    ... ius shews the letter.<tab> </tab>&#8212;The same.</para> <para>He proposes that Ophelia &amp; Hamlet shall meet &amp; he behind the arras.<tab> </tab>&#8212;The ...

    ... ing* &amp; then speaks to her.[margins]</para> <para><tab> </tab>Interview with Ophelia.</para> <para><tab> </tab>The King is of opinion that Hamlet is not dist ...

    ... the play.<tab> </tab>&#8212;The same.</para> <para>The design of Hamlet meeting Ophelia &amp; the King &amp; Polonius behind the arras again mentioned.</para> < ...

    ... let enters while <small>quizing</small> on Suicide.</para> <para>Interview with Ophelia.</para> <para>Discourse of the King &amp; Polonius on what they heard &a ...

    ... ed <i>reading</i>, as he does now, immediately after Polonius had proposed that Ophelia should meet him as if by accident, and that he, the wily politician, sho ...

    ... , he delivers the soliloquy before &lt;/p. 238&gt;&lt;p. 239&gt;us, after which Ophelia meets him and the wild dialogue takes place. The King expresses his opin ...

    ... . The King expresses his opinion that Hamlet is not distracted through love for Ophelia; and Polonius engages to search him deeper. Then follows the interview w ...
60) Commentary Note for line 1742:
1742 And loose the name of action. Soft you now,

    ... b><sc>Gentleman</sc> (1770, p. 23): &#x201C;The conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia is finely imagined to puzzle the spies who watch his words and actions; ...

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