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“Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty –”
Hamlet Act Three, Part Four By Dennis Abrams ——————————– Let’s talk some more about Ophelia. And about Gertrude. As I think we’ve seen so far, Hamlet’s tragedy is not exclusively, as Schlegel thought, a tragedy of thought. It’s not even … Continue reading
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