 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 pages
...542-4; see LBM, 123-4), "ked to regard it so, with as much or as little sincerity as Hamlet's I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. (v, i, 291) Byron was generally as ready as Hamlet to cap such extravagances of 'rant' (v, i, 306)... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...old, then, is Gertrude? Was Hamlet ever seriously in love with Ophelia? He says so in the end: I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not (with all their quantity of love) Make up my sum. (Vi292-94) But we may wonder. Hamlet's earlier disgust with Ophelia and his repudiations of her are,... | |
 | Elena Ortells Montón, José Ramón Prado Pérez - 2003 - 150 pages
...himself to the task imposed by the Ghost. When, later on, in the graveyard scene Branagh/Hamlet cries "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/ Could not,...with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum" (V, i, 259-6l), we believe his boast and sympathise with him in his great suffering. Yet, I am afraid,... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer way. 290 Queen. O my son, what theme? Ham. I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? King. O, he is mad, Laertes. 205 Queen. For love of god, forbear him. Ham.... | |
 | Peter Raby - 2003 - 236 pages
...you, having suffered so much for you; he who, with all the wrongs he did, can say, like Hamlet: . . . Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.'" The next day she was buried in Montmartre. Baron Taylor, Joseph d'Ortigue, Briseux, Leon de Wailly... | |
 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 376 pages
...similar histrionics and violence as he wrestles with his beloved's brother over her coffin: Hamlet: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her? Hing Claudius: O, he is mad, Laertes. Queen Gertrude: (to Laertes) For... | |
 | R. Clifton Spargo - 2004 - 338 pages
...so professes his own elegiac estimation of Ophelia by way of contrast to Laertes's inadequate love: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her? (5.1.254-56) Given his habit of quantifying his mother's love for his... | |
 | Barry Jonsberg - 2004 - 268 pages
...have only vague notions of Kiffo's true feelings towards me. But I know how I feel. I loved Kiffo. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. And now I find myself here with a box beside me and a mouth full of empty words. Perhaps, in the end, at... | |
 | Klaas Wiertzema, Patricia Jansen - 2004 - 206 pages
...Turner) l, • "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive."77 (Samuel Goldwyn) • "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up the sum."78 (William Shakespeare, Hamlet) 154 Hypofoor: Een vraag waarop de spreker zelf antwoord geeft.... | |
 | Anthony King - 2004 - 290 pages
...puts on 'antic disposition' (Shakespeare 1982: 226). He represses his own love for Ophelia even though 'forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum' (Shakespeare 1982: 391—92); this intimate social contact and its possible progeny would be defiling.... | |
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I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. 
