...tortured note of violent confusion on the word "mother." The motherqueen, slut and oedipal betrayer: "O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" Shakespeare wrote quite a drama, didn't he? A sensational, impossible drama. Which Hamlet, and Hamlet,...

...to me all the uses of this world!' (Act 1 scene 2) 4 He denounces his mother, and women in general: 'O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets.' 'frailty, thy name is woman.' (Act 1 scene 2) 5 The Ghost's revelations produce a surge of passion...

...longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother; but no more like my father, Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It...

...my poor father's body, O, God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer — Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes She married — O most wicked speed! (1.2.138, 145-46, 147-48, 150-51, 153-56) Above all,...

...longer! - married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her galled eyes, She married. Oh, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!...

...Q7Qg. 66. kill'd] jlabd Qq. staW d Sta. Pue-fellow] puefellawQQ^. pew- Cam. +. 55- gauled] Compare: 'Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes.' 56. excellent] BRADLEY (NED sv 1 6) gives several examples of 'excellent' used in a 'bad...

...advantage upon that which is corrupt and degenerate.' — Bk i, § 4; (Clar. ed., p. 27). Again, Hamlet: 'Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes.' — I, ii, 155; where, however, the Quarto of 1603 reads 'their flushing.' 56, 57. Know,...

...'73. each at other 120. wond'ring] Ff, Rowe,+, Wh. ii, Rowe et cet. Neils, wondering Var. '73 et cet. 'Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,' Hamlet, I, ii, 154. 120. each at others] WA WRIGHT: If this be the true reading we must...

...longer - married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!...

...longer— married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It...