 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...reprimand in her voice. "Seems, Madam?" Hamlet is provoked to retort, Nay, it is. I know not "seems." "Pis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - Performing Arts - 1995 - 232 pages
...Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspirations of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly. These... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
..."'Seems,' madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems'" (76), stressing his disgust in "k" and "s" sounds: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black ..." (77-78) He establishes his role: if the external signs of his mourning are "actions that a man... | |
 | Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 414 pages
...Hamlet styles his grief as that which "passes show": Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the... | |
 | Peter Iver Kaufman - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 194 pages
...seem the somber monk at a generally festive court. Hamlet responds that more than seeming is at stake. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Xor the dejected havior of the... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...so particular with thee?' Hamlet pounces on 'seems': Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not 'seems'. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...reproaches that he shoots at her grief-free demeanour. Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems'. 'Ti's not alone my inky cloak, good mother Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the... | |
 | John Harvey - History - 1995 - 292 pages
...ascetic severity and revulsion; and Hamlet can seem to mourn a larger evil than his father's death: Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black . . . That can denote me truly. . . . ... I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Drama - 1997 - 600 pages
...'Uncanny/" 252. 'Stigmatical in Making": The Material Character of The Comedy of Errors Douglas Lanier Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the... | |
 | Henry Sussman - Philosophy - 1997 - 338 pages
...'Tis not alone my inky coat, good mother, Nor customary coats of solemn black. Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly. These... | |
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Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye. 
