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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
997 And to the last bended their light on me.2.1.97
1723- mtby2
mtby2
997 And] Thirlby (1723-): “fsql [low-level probability] Which. [illeg.] rm.”
Ed. note: final symbols illegible. See pope1 at Beinecke (Yale) Library.
1773 gent
gent
971-97 O . . . me] Gentleman (ed. 1773): “This is an exceedingly pretty and significant account of Hamlet’s behaviour.”
Ed. note:To understand this remark correctly, one needs to know what pretty meant to gent; it can be a rather deprecating term, faint praise. Ophelia, however, does have some lively images, like “bended their light on me.”
1872 cln1
cln1
997 bended] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “We have this form of the preterite in [Cor. 2.1.265 (1195)]: ‘The nobles bended, As to Jove’s statue.’’”
1877 v1877
v1877 = Miles
997 Furness (ed. 1877): “Miles (Review of Hamlet, p. 28): ‘We are not permitted to see Hamlet in this ecstasy of love, but what a picture! How he must have loved her, that love should bring him to such a pass!—his knees knocking each other!—knees that had firmly followed a beckoning ghost! There is more than the love of forty thousand brothers in that hard grasp of the wrist,—in that long gaze at arm’s length,—in the force that might, but will not, draw her nearer! And never a word from this king of words! His first great silence,—the second is death!’”
1878 rlf1
rlf1= v1877 +
997 bended] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “S. uses bended and bent interchangeably, both as past tense and as participle.”
1982 ard2
ard2: xref
997 bended their light] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “As with Orpheus’s last look at Eurydice. (See 973 CN.)”
1987 oxf4
oxf4
997 bended] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "turned, directed."
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2
997 bended their light] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “i.e. focused their attention”
997