15. (a) What dramatic importance in having, now (11. 366, 371), foreign spectators admitted to look upon the scene? (b) Why is it well that Fortinbras, who is to have the throne, should discern and declare (11. 368-371) the significance of the sight? (c) Why does Horatio propose (11. 381, 384) that Hamlet's story shall be told before the bodies of the dead? (d) How far are we assured potentially that Denmark will be persuaded of the late King's usurpation and wickedness, and that the Ghost's vengeance will be complete? (e) Why is the statement of Hamlet's wish (1. 360) concerning the succession (11. 395, 396) postponed? (f) Why is Hamlet, alone, to be lifted (1. 400) to the stage, before the curtain falls? (g) What is to be thought of the use of ordnance in this play? How far does Shakespeare generally make capital of noise? 16. (a) Why did not the author change the history further, and make the Queen to have been loyal to Hamlet's father? (b) Was Hamlet's life a failure? (c) What seems to have caused the great popularity of this drama? (d) In what respects does it seem, typically, not Shakespeare's? (e) What, to you, does the play of Hamlet mean? . INDEX TO NOTES about, 218. aery, 212. affront, 218. after, 217. alarm, 232. amaze, 217. an, 200, 233. anchor's cheer, 226. and not, 241. an if, 203. argument, 212, 237. armour of the mind, 229. arras, 209. as, 197, 236. as a stranger, 203. assays of bias, 205. as winds give benefit, 193. at foot, 236. at the odds, 249. ban, 226. bare bodkin, 219. batten, 231. beaten way, 211. blood and judgment, 223. blossoms of sin, 201. board, 209. bodykins, 217. boisterous, 229. bosom, 208. bourn, 219. bouts, 243. bow them, 189. brainish, 234. bravery, 248. break thee off, 185. brief chronicles, 217. brow of woe, 188. bugs, 247. but, 194, 211, 216. by and by, 228. candi'd, 223. capable, 233. carbuncles, 216. carouses, 250. carry it away, 212. cast beyond, 206. cautel, 194. caviare, 215. cease, 229. censure, 195, 222. centre, 209. change, 192. chanson, 214. character, 195. chariest, 194. checking at, 242. chief in that, 195. chopine, 215. come, bird, 202. come short, 242. companies, 207. compelled, 240. comply with, 213, 249. conception, 209. concernancy, 248. conclusions, 234. confederate season, 226. confine, 188. confines, 210. confusion, 218. considered, 208. consonancy, 211. continent, 237, 248. contraction, 231. convoy is assistant, 193. count, 241. countenance, 235. crack the wind, 196. crafts, 234. crafty madness, 218. credent, 194. cried in the top of, 215. crowner, 244. dagger, 248. daisy, 240. Dane, 184. Danskers, 204. dead vast, 192. decline upon, 201. |