 | James Howe - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 273 pages
...rash. 1 2. Nor does he feel remorse for having killed his old friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: "They did make love to this employment, / They are not near my conscience. Their defeat / Does by their own insinuation grow" (5.2.57-59). Like Polonius, they chose to be spies. '"Tis dangerous... | |
 | John Russell - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 246 pages
...execution of his former friends is not near Hamlet's conscience. "Their defeat," he maintains, Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (V.ii.58-62) Just as it was perfect conscience to send Rosencrantz and Guildenst' ern to their death,... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Drama - 1995 - 197 pages
...far removed from vain cruelty as from cheap sentimentality: H o R . So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. HAM. Why, man, they did make love to this...employment. They are not near my conscience, their defeat Docs by their own insinuation grow. v, ii, 56-9 But Hamlet's choice reflectors are understandably the... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 268 pages
...in England in his place. Hamlet is quite cold-blooded about it: HOR: So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. HAM: Why, man, they did make love to this employment. They are not near my conscience. (56-58) Hamlet's tone towards Claudius has changed: He that hath killed my King and whored my mother,... | |
 | John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 292 pages
...'So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to Y with 'They are not near my conscience'. In Folio he says: Why, man, they did make love to this employment. They are not near my conscience.14 (5- 2. 58-9) Shakespeare wanted the ruthless thing, and the aura of cruel comic relish... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Russell Jackson - Performing Arts - 1996 - 208 pages
...Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. A brief beat, before the new wiser, harder HAMLET speaks. HAMLET Why, man, they did make love to this employment. They...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. HORATIO has little choice but to agree. Or change the subject. HORATIO HAMLET Why, what a king is this!... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - Drama - 1996 - 865 pages
...morality of these tactics, Hamlet answers coldly: They are not near my conscience. Their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (V, ii, 58-62) To him their lives are not even worth considering. Hamlet also now views himself and... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Drama - 1996 - 286 pages
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, which he arranged: They are not near my conscience; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. Tis dangerous when...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (5.2.58-62) Hamlet and Claudius are the two mighty opposites, and the references to "pass and fell"... | |
 | Professor Department of Aeronautics John Harvey, John Harvey - History - 1995 - 280 pages
...\\Tiv, man, they did make love to this employment. They arc not near my conscience, their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when...comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighw opposites. (v. ii. 56-62) This brings us to the darker aspect of Hamlet himself, for these are... | |
 | Longxi Zhang - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 248 pages
...Reality 151 6. Postmodernism and the Return of the Native 184 Notes 215 Index 243 Tis dangerous when baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.ii.6o He is one with what is one; he is also one with what is not one. Being... | |
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Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. 
