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Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why?

Hamlet, angry, tells Ophelia: “Take thee to a nunnery!” [nunnery: Renaissance slang for brothel]

“There [in Heaven] is no shuffling; there the action lies in his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, to give in evidence.” —King Claudius

“Why does Hamlet attend the German university at Wittenberg? Why study at a university at all? An incorrigible symbolist, Shakespeare must secretly import what he does not openly impart.”

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An occasional prefigurement and echo was hardly unknown before Shakespeare. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in certain Shakespearean tragedies, was rare if unknown before him. Who, even now, does this?

Two examples of messages conveyed via metaphoric resonance:

(1) an element of the weight metaphoric trail in Coriolanus:

The protagonist says scornfully to the Citizens in the first Act:

He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead.

In the second Act, Coriolanus more cautiously, deceptively, remarks to the plebeians'...

To begin with, Shakespeare had a complete grammar school education, and Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes were assigned reading!!

This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays, and illuminating historical background. Not only should this prove the Shakespeare-Greek Drama connection, but that William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama.

3. “Pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums”

Many of us associate Lady Macbeth’s special temper...

Are some of Shakespeare’s romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines?

{“Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words), covertly uttered by precious-and-pure heroines, call for an immediate revision of viewpoint.”}

When Fernando (The Tempest) is described as bravely swimming for shore “in lusty stroke”, would he be disqualified for doing this in Olympic competition?

Before the walls of Harfleur, when Henry V threatens to “mow like grass your fresh-fair virgins” and have “your naked infants spitted upon pikes”, is he (and by...