...were. Who remembers or cares to remember the weary explanations of such passages as "The dram of eale doth all the noble substance of a doubt to his own scandal." Experience shows that nothing can so deaden a Shakespeare class as long dwelling on the notes. Avoid...

...undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault: the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. Enter Ghost. Hor. Look, my lord, it comes ! Ham. Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! Be thou...

...undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption 35 From that particular fault : the dram of evil Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. 27. the] Pope, their Q. 32. star] Q, sear, Theobald, Pope (ed. 2). 33. T/uir] Theobald, Pope (ed. 2)...

...undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault ; the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. Act I., Sc. iv., II, 17-38. Several correspondents, including Mr. Thomas Hardy, OM, Sir Israel Gollancz,...

...undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption 35 From that particular fault: the dram of ealo wo paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. This earth tha * Enter Ghost. HOT. Look, my lord, it comes ! Ham. Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! Be thou...

...of suspect. 58 A similar psychology must underlie Hamlet's reference to the "dram of eale, " which Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. 88 From what has just been said it is obvious that, as they continue, the passions are cumulative in...

...undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. 'The general censure' Dr. Meier explains as 'das allgemein, iiber Adam und damit iiber die gesamte...

...undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault: the dram of evil Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. Hamlet's analysis applies to productions of Shakespeare as well as to men. The 1955-6 season promised...

...dram . . . scandal. 14,4-6. The accepted text, which is in every way better, reads ' the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal '. Dram — a very small Quantity; eale = an insoluble corruption; perhaps a phonetic spelling of •...

...III. Passages unintelligible as a whole, although every word taken by itself is intelligible. Type: Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, \ To his own scandal (Hml. 1,4,36-38). It is this class of puzzles that has exercised critics and commentators most —...