 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 pages
...meaningless, incapable of countering his mother's carnality but rather reflecting it in embryo. Yet he loves Ophelia: . . . forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. (V. i. 263-5) So too in the Graveyard Scene, Hamlet deeply perceives the common lot of man: That skull... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2007 - 188 pages
...revenge. In his confrontation with Laertes, Hamlet challenges him over who loves Ophelia most: 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? KING CLAUDIUS O, he is mad, Laertes. QUEEN GERTRUDE For love of God,... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - 2007 - 16 pages
...calls the duel a "brothers' wager" (5.2.249). This would make him loving brother to Ophelia as well: "Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum" (5.1.264—6). 64 "A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Richard Burbage" (1619), in EK Chambers, The Elizabethan... | |
 | Robert Shaughnessy - 2007 - 267 pages
...successful Romeo and Juliet, with a decisive Ophelia and a Hamlet who really does love her so much that "forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up [his] sum"(5. 1.264-66). Not only does Ophelia see Old Hamlet's ghost and ally herself with Hamlet... | |
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I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. 
