 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...skull and holds it very delicately, awe-struck. FIRST GRAVEDIGGER is fascinated. HAMLET (continuing) Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio — a fellow...times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! Interior / PALACE Day (Flashback) Cut to: We see the mobile face of this classic clown. The instant... | |
 | Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 414 pages
...memory and imagination seems reduced to this, the decayed skull, in a moment of visceral revulsion: Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now — how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises... | |
 | Howard Marchitello - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 262 pages
...philosophical discussion of the materiality of the body, and then an equally material revulsion: "He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now - how abhorred...those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft" (5. 1.1 79-83). 5 For the skull does change "ownership": it was first Yorick's, and then became no... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 418 pages
..."measured and quaint melancholy":307 "Alas, poor Yorick! (he pauses five seconds, then looks at Horatio) I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of...hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now (he raises the skull) how abhorred in my imagination it is! ... Here hung those lips that I have kissed... | |
 | Erwin J. Warkentin - Fiction - 1997 - 136 pages
...of Shakespeare's tragedy into his own text Most important is Hamlef s famous soliloquy on Yorick's skull: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow...of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now — how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself. 6 Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio — a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1, I. 180-1... | |
 | Kirby Farrell - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 446 pages
...selflessly playful. But his skull disenchants the patriarchal promise of immortality with sickening force: "He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And...it is! My gorge rises at it! Here hung those lips I have kissed I know not how oft" (5.1.187-89). The lips, the prosthetic voice are silent. The only... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...my tears; but yet It is our trick, nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will. 10229 Hamlet 10230 Hamlet There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. 10231 Hamlet If thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...in Q2 and E (see 5.1.119-25, 137-8). HAMLET This? CLOWN E'en that. 155 H AML ET Let me see. \Takes the skull.] Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio,...jest, of most excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his hack a thousand times - and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...poor Yorick. 1 knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now — how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises at it. (5.1.178-82) Successful mouroing requires a resolution of the contradiction between what is still vital... | |
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Alas, poor Yorick! — I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed... 
