...of grief is that which utters itself so loudly? Ophelia is dead ; but could I not weep for her ! " " I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not,...with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Am not I of all mortals most wretched, thatOrestes-like I am made the undesired instrument of fate,...

...conduct over her grave he gives full expression to the sentiments he had really entertained for her : " I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers, Could not,...with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Since the above paper was written, I have met with an interpretation of Hamlet's conduct to Ophelia,...

...expression of the grief occasioned by his love for Ophelia, Hamlet hyperbolically challenges that love: "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could...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...

...tree can not be right or wrong; a wind, a 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....

...action," a name that he will not utter 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...

...Ophelia. I was the more deceived. (3.1.114-19) 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...

...to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.' '/ loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum -.' 'I'll rant as well as thou.' (Act 5 scene 1 ) 17 Hamlet seems less tortured at this stage of the...

...calls the duel "this brothers' 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...

...myself to, to the walls, the fences, the whole architecture, I was screaming, he loved me, he did, forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up the sum, m x I/I and an ambulance came, and men standing in the yard would say later that crazy bitch...

...with him upon this theme Until my eyelids 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...