And of course Rat and Mole do "see the players well bestowed." And clearly "they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time."
"The Mole ... plunged into family history and made each of them recite the names of his numerous brothers, who were too young, it appeared, to be allowed to go out a-carolling this year, but looked forward very shortly to winning the parental consent."
And most brilliantly, their play-within-a-play is Hamlet itself:
"They gave us a capital one last year, about a field-mouse who was captured at sea by a Barbary corsair, and made to row in a galley; and when he escaped and got home again, his lady-love had gone into a convent."
Ophelia has indeed gone to that nunnery of his ill-wishing: as death's bride and the banquet of worms.
Re: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue
And of course Rat and Mole do "see the players well bestowed." And clearly "they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time."
"The Mole ... plunged into family history and made each of them recite the names of his numerous brothers, who were too young, it appeared, to be allowed to go out a-carolling this year, but looked forward very shortly to winning the parental consent."
And most brilliantly, their play-within-a-play is Hamlet itself:
"They gave us a capital one last year, about a field-mouse who was captured at sea by a Barbary corsair, and made to row in a galley; and when he escaped and got home again, his lady-love had gone into a convent."
Ophelia has indeed gone to that nunnery of his ill-wishing: as death's bride and the banquet of worms.
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