| Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...reflection on human or even male mortality but a triumphant reading and declaration of female mortality: "Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come" (5.1.186-89l. Although a commonplace of Renaissance misogyny, Hamlet's move from... | |
| John Green, Paul Negri - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 68 pages
...that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. HORATIO. What's that, my... | |
| Lloyd Cameron, Rebecca Barnes - Drama - 2001 - 116 pages
...skull in the grave, he comes to the realisation that everyone's fate is the same. He says to Horatio: Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour must she come. (Act V, Sc. i, lines 189-91) Rosencrantz is also concerned with the inevitability of... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...sky. Good heavens! "Alas! poor Yorick. . . . Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? . . . Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come"-Hamlet, contemplating the skull of the Court Jester. kan: sing. L canere; frequentative... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...that were wont to set the table on a roar? No one now to mock your own jeering? 55 Quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Horatio What's that, my... | |
| Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...concludes by mordantly imagining the skull appearing before the mirror of a woman putting on her cosmetics: Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. (5.1.186-89) Earlier, Hamlet had criticized women for having... | |
| Carol Chillington Rutter - Body, Human, in literature - 2001 - 244 pages
...comes with other instructions, ventriloquized by yet another of the king's doubles, Hamlet, his son: 'Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.' Yorick's wisdom makes revenge superfluous. 'To this favour [we] must come' means we... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen ? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that, (vi) York, Archbishop of (R.Il) see SCROOP, RICHARD. York, Archbishop... | |
| Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Horatio What's that, my... | |
| Jeffrey Hart - Education - 2008 - 285 pages
...the identity of a skull: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. . . . Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come." 16 Hamlet is also well aware of the skepticism of Montaigne, especially of The... | |
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