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ââThe Tragedy of Hamletâ is a coarse and barbarous piece of work that would not be accepted by the basest rabble in France or Italy. One would think it the fruit of the imagination of a drunken savage.â â Voltaire
There you have it, folks. According to Voltaire, the true author of âHamletâ is Caliban.
ââYou taught me language; and my profit onât is, I know how to curse!â
Horatio isâŠan interesting character. Weâre given just enough of his backstory to realize how much is missing. He was Hamletâs fellow-student at Wittenberg, but he also apparently fought for Hamletâs father against Norway (Fortinbras Sr.), and old Norway was killed the day Hamlet Jr. was born. Heâs a gentleman but not a Lord, and he apparently has little to no private income (âNay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I hope from thee, that no revenue hast but thy good spirits to feed and clothe thee?â. Heâs Hamletâs closest friend and confidant, but the guards on the watch knew heâd returned to Elsinore well before Hamlet himself did. Gertrude and Claudius know him mainly as Hamletâs friend, yet when Hamlet is sent to England Horatio remains in the castle and is given private audience with the King and Queen.
Itâs often said that Horatio, for all his prominence throughout the play, never really does anything to advance the plot; heâs an expository character, there to explain things and have things explained to him. However, my own theory is that heâs largely responsible for Opheliaâs death. When Ophelia goes mad, after her first appearance Claudius tells Horatio âGive her good watch, I pray you.â When Ophelia enters the second time thereâs no explicit stage note that Horatio enters with her, but the stage directions werenât written by Shakespeare himself and, as Horatio has no lines in that exchange, he may simply have been omitted. In the next scene we see Horatio getting word that Hamlet is back in England so he rushes off to meet him, and in the scene after that we learn that Ophelia has drowned. Who SHOULD have been keeping an eye on Ophelia? Horatio. The King himself told him to.
pschearer Premium Member over 2 years ago
HORATIO: Tush, tush, âtwill not appear.
HoraceLaBadie,Jr over 2 years ago
Unlike A Midsummer Nightâs Dream, which shows us a lot of Bottom.
gopher gofer over 2 years ago
that was a movie with bette davis, right? tush, tush, sweet charlotteâŠ
WoT_Hog Premium Member over 2 years ago
Clyde is our most erudite companion!
oakie817 over 2 years ago
alas, poor Horace
95 over 2 years ago
Wonât find that one in Bob Hopeâs card-file.
uniquename over 2 years ago
Macbeth was the dirty play. The Lady had to keep washing her hands.
Thomas R. Williams over 2 years ago
Hamlet has a coarse, cunning pun during the Mouse Trap play
fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago
ââThe Tragedy of Hamletâ is a coarse and barbarous piece of work that would not be accepted by the basest rabble in France or Italy. One would think it the fruit of the imagination of a drunken savage.â â Voltaire
There you have it, folks. According to Voltaire, the true author of âHamletâ is Caliban.
ââYou taught me language; and my profit onât is, I know how to curse!â
(I can do obscure, too.)
fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago
Horatio isâŠan interesting character. Weâre given just enough of his backstory to realize how much is missing. He was Hamletâs fellow-student at Wittenberg, but he also apparently fought for Hamletâs father against Norway (Fortinbras Sr.), and old Norway was killed the day Hamlet Jr. was born. Heâs a gentleman but not a Lord, and he apparently has little to no private income (âNay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I hope from thee, that no revenue hast but thy good spirits to feed and clothe thee?â. Heâs Hamletâs closest friend and confidant, but the guards on the watch knew heâd returned to Elsinore well before Hamlet himself did. Gertrude and Claudius know him mainly as Hamletâs friend, yet when Hamlet is sent to England Horatio remains in the castle and is given private audience with the King and Queen.
Itâs often said that Horatio, for all his prominence throughout the play, never really does anything to advance the plot; heâs an expository character, there to explain things and have things explained to him. However, my own theory is that heâs largely responsible for Opheliaâs death. When Ophelia goes mad, after her first appearance Claudius tells Horatio âGive her good watch, I pray you.â When Ophelia enters the second time thereâs no explicit stage note that Horatio enters with her, but the stage directions werenât written by Shakespeare himself and, as Horatio has no lines in that exchange, he may simply have been omitted. In the next scene we see Horatio getting word that Hamlet is back in England so he rushes off to meet him, and in the scene after that we learn that Ophelia has drowned. Who SHOULD have been keeping an eye on Ophelia? Horatio. The King himself told him to.
fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago
Tush will not appear? Well, ZZ Top wouldnât go downtown to see THAT playâŠ
fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago
âFull frontal nudity, but tush will not appear.â
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 2 years ago
Tushes are not âdirtyâ the joke would die outside of the US.
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
Rather than open oneâs mouth and remove all doubt.