 | 1865 - 820 pages
...of grief is that which utters itself so loudly? Ophelia is dead ; but could I not weep for her ! " " I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not,...with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Am not I of all mortals most wretched, thatOrestes-like I am made the undesired instrument of fate,... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 198 pages
...conduct over her grave he gives full expression to the sentiments he had really entertained for her : " I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers, Could not,...with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Since the above paper was written, I have met with an interpretation of Hamlet's conduct to Ophelia,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 pages
...expression of the grief occasioned by his love for Ophelia, Hamlet hyperbolically challenges that love: "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could...with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum" (272-74). Hamlet, in short, will not let Laertes "outface" him. Nor will he allow Laertes to assume... | |
 | Deb Margolin - 1999 - 214 pages
...tree can not be right or wrong; a wind, a time of day . . . and this woman, neither young nor old: 'I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not...with all their quantity of love make up my sum.' And Spalding Gray! You can't criticize him, really! He too is a time of day, a season, a fact. A fact.... | |
 | Valeria Wagner - 1999 - 288 pages
...action," a name that he will not utter himself but that will be left to the spectators to pronounce. I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (Vi 265-67)* Hamlet has obviously not managed to leave the stage yet, as... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 pages
...Ophelia. I was the more deceived. (3.1.114-19) In the graveyard scene Hamlet declares to all and sundry, I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (5.1.269-71) It seems impossible to discern the genuineness of his affection for Ophelia from Hamlet's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 356 pages
...to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.' '/ loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum -.' 'I'll rant as well as thou.' (Act 5 scene 1 ) 17 Hamlet seems less tortured at this stage of the... | |
 | Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor - 2000 - 436 pages
...calls the duel "this 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" (5.1.264-66). 4o. Samuel Schoenbaum itemizes John Shakespeare's debts and losses as well as his sale... | |
 | Lidia Yuknavitch - 2000 - 182 pages
...myself to, to the walls, the fences, the whole architecture, I was screaming, he loved me, he did, forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up the sum, m x I/I and an ambulance came, and men standing in the yard would say later that crazy bitch... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...with him upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Gertrude O my son, what theme? 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? Claudius O, he is mad, Laertes. Gertrude For love of God, forbear... | |
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I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. 
