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Notes for lines 1018-2022 ed. Eric Rasmussen
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
1298 < Rosin. Why then your Ambition makes it one: ’tis> 2.2.252
1299 <too narrow for your minde.>
1885 macd
macd
1299 too narrow for your minde] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “—feeling after the cause of Hamlet’s strangeness, and following the readiest suggestion, that of chagrin at missing the succession.”
1934a cam3
cam3
1298 Why ...one] Wilson (ed. 1934): “No one seems hitherto to have observed the significance of this talk about Ham.’s ambition, continued for 14 lines, and then abruptly broken off by Ham. The two ‘friends’ acting on the K’s suggestion are probing Ham. to ‘gather so much as from occasion’ they may glean [(1036)]of what is in his mind. Ham. refuses to be drawn; but he has seen the point, and makes use of it later. To the Eliz. ‘ambition’ (v. G.) meant the ostentation of glory as will as the desire for it.”
1298 1299