Biblical AllusionBiblical AllusionAct 4,Scene 2Lines 26-28Hamlet aluding to a phrase in the bible in Act 4, Scene 2 in myshakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet the body. The king is a thing ... Guildenstern A thing, my lord? Hamlet Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after! [Exit.] Hamlet is alluding to a passage from the bible (Psalms chapter 14, verse 4): “Man is like a thing of nought: his time passeth away like a shadow.”
