...thy dear father love — Hamlet: O God! Ghost: Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. Hamlet: Murder! Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange and unnatural. (I, v, 23-8)1 1 This and all other quotations and references from the text are taken from The Temple...

...'Haste me to know't', cries Hamlet, imploring the ghost of his father to reveal the facts of his murder, 'that I with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love / May sweep to my revenge.' En hate apprends-le-moi, says Gide's Hamlet, et prompt comme I'aile de la meditation, prompt comme...

...didst ever thy dear father love HAMLET O God! GHOST Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. HAMLET Murder! GHOST Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange and unnatural. 10 20 HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love,...

...told him the bare fact that he had been murdered without yet having told him who the murderer was: Haste me to know it, that I, with wings as swift As...meditation or the thoughts of love May sweep to my revenge (1, 5, 29-3 1 ) Yet Hamlet, unlike Othello and Lear, is a supreme psychologist, and knows himself as...