Read more about Act 1, Scene 2: Video Link Paragraphs Index Item: Character Interview: Claudius, Gertrude, and Hamlet
Read more about Act 1, Scene 2: Video Link Paragraphs Index Item: Performance: Hamlet's Soliloquy
Claudius Requite him for your father. Laertes I will do't, And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword. Read more about Act 4, Scene 7: Popup Note Index Item: "anoint my sword"
Laertes If so you'll not o'errule me to a peace. Claudius To thine own peace. If he be now returned, Read more about Act 4, Scene 7: Popup Note Index Item: "peace"
Claudius Oh , for two special reasons, Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, But yet to me they are strong. The queen, his mother, Lives almost by his looks, and for myself (My virtue or my plague, be it either which) She's so conjuncconjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her. The other motive Why to a public count I might not go Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his guilts to graces so that my arrows, Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aimed them. Read more about Act 4, Scene 7: Popup Note Index Item: "arrows, too slightly timbered"
