 | Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 166 pages
...that is not meant to be taken literally, as when Hamlet says: I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. iambic pentameter a line of verse made up of five feet (penta means five) in which each foot consists... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1998 - 390 pages
...for Ophelia, Hamlet hyperbolically challenges that love: "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum" (272-74). Hamlet, in short, will not let Laertes "outface" him. Nor will he allow Laertes to assume... | |
 | Valeria Wagner - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...himself but that will be left to the spectators to pronounce. I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (Vi 265-67)* Hamlet has obviously not managed to leave the stage yet, as this combat of words demonstrates.... | |
 | Deb Margolin - Social Science - 1999 - 214 pages
...time of day . . . and this woman, neither young nor old: 'I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.' And Spalding Gray! You can't criticize him, really! He too is a time of day, a season, a fact. A fact.... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...In the graveyard scene Hamlet declares to all and sundry, I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (5.1.269-71) It seems impossible to discern the genuineness of his affection for Ophelia from Hamlet's... | |
 | Carla Mazzio - Civilization, Modern - 2000 - 432 pages
...wager" (5.2.249). This would make him loving brother to Ophelia as well: "Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum" (5.1.264-66). 4o. Samuel Schoenbaum itemizes John Shakespeare's debts and losses as well as his sale... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...the seat of anger) QUEEN 0 my son, what theme? HAMLET I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers 260 Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? KING O, he is mad, Laertes. QUEEN 263 For love of God, forbear him. HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou't... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...eyelids will no longer wag! Queen O my son, what theme? Hamlet I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum! - What wilt thou do for her? The Tragedie of Hamlet 205 Ham. What, the faire Ophelia? Queene. Sweets, to the sweet farewell. I hop'd... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...you not" [3.1.118-19]), he now declares it over her corpse: I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (5.1.264-66) One's actions demonstrate one's love. Much as Claudius lured Laertes into his murder trap... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...will no longer wag. Gertrude O my son, what theme? Hamlet I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum . — What wilt thou do for her? Claudius O, he is mad, Laertes. Gertrude For love of God, forbear him. 164 165 Hamlet 'ovelya! chay'!... | |
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I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. 
