"keen"
Wordplay
Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 225-232
Hamlet
[Enter Lucianus.]
Ophelia
Hamlet
Ophelia
Hamlet
Ophelia
Hamlet plays on three meanings of the word "keen" in more bawdy wordplay:
- witty (Ophelia’s meaning)
- sexually aroused (Hamlet’s interpretation)
- having a sharp edge. It would require Ophelia’s groaning (having sex) to remove Hamlet's keenness.