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Notes for lines 1018-2022 ed. Eric Rasmussen

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1081 His fathers death, and our <o’re->hastie marriage.	2.2.57

1725-? mtby2

mtby2

1081 our] Thirlby (1725-? and 1733-47?) points out that o’re is superfluous to the line. Where THEOBALD (ed. 1733) in H8 (5.57) refers to a longer note on versification that he will have in Ham., THIRLBY (1733-47?) provides a cross-reference to his own note on the same page as Theobald’s note on versification. Next to TLN 1081, at the word o’erx, Thirlby states, “The verse will stand without it, Hoc ibi.” The word is not needed for the sense (hasty alone is enough), and it adds a syllable. According to Smith, the Hoc ibi indicates that the note had been in thirlby (1725-?).

1733 theo1

theo1

1081 His . . . marriage] Theobald (ed. 1733) in H8 (5.57), comments upon those who introduce variations to regularize the meter: “They herein advance a false Nicety of Ear against the Licence of shakespeare’s Numbers: nay, indeed, against the Licence of all English Versification, in common with that of other Languages. They do not seem to apprehend, that M˘ary ˘y th-is is in Scansion plainly an Anapest; and equal to a Spondee, or Foot of two Syllables. I shall take an Oppotunity, when I come to Hamlet, x to speak of the Pes proceleusmaticus, so freqeunt in Homer, Virgil, and other the best Classical Poets. I’ll only add here, that I could produce at least two thousand of our Poet’s Verses, that would be disturb’d by this modern, unreasonable, Chastness of Metre

1733-47? mtby3

mtby3 = mtby2

1081 our ]Thirlby (1725-?) points out that the o’re is superfluous to the line. This is also in THIRLBY (1733-47?). Where THEOBALD (ed. 1733) in H8 (5.57) refers to a longer note he will have in Ham on versification, THIRLBY (1733-47?), provides a x-ref—but not exactly to THEOBALD’S note (ed. 1733), but to his own note on the same page as Theobald’s note on versification. Next to TLN 1081, at the word o’erx, Thirlby states, “The verse will stand without it, Hoc ibi.” The word is not needed for the sense (hasty alone is enough), and it adds a syllable. According to Smith, the Hoc ibi indicates that the note had been in THIRLBY (1725-?).

1885 macd

macd

1081 His . . . marriage.] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “She goes a step farther than the king in accounting for Hamlet’s misery—knows there is more cause of it yet, but hopes he does not know so much cause for misery as he might know.”