...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...on; and yet within a month — Let me not think on't . . . (1.2.139-46) This image of parental love is so satisfying to Hamlet in part because it seems...

...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why she would hang on him As if increase...father's body, Like Niobe, all tears — why, she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer — married with my uncle,...

...nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this: But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, Within a month — Let me not think on't; frailty,...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, she married with my uncle, My father's brother,...

...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she O God, a beast that wants discourse...

..."Heaven and earth, / Must I remember?" the young prince of Denmark rhetorically and angrily asks himself: Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, •why she, even she — O God, a beast that...

...my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman He turns to face away from the door. HAMLET (continuing) A little month, or ere those shoes were old...

...brother's widow, there is no doubt in the play of the incest, and Hamlet states the case directly: 'Let me not think on't - Frailty, thy name is woman...poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears - why, she O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer - married with my uncle, My...

...Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...within a month — Let me not think on't — Frailty, they name is woman — (1.2.135-46) Grief over his father's death is overlaid and supplanted by obsessive...

...primarily, of course, Hamlet who upbraids his mother in this way — in terms of who she is ingesting: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite...and yet within a month — / Let me not think on't" (I.ii. 143-46; cf. Iv55-57). Yet "think on't" he does, and, in trying not to dwell on it, his fantasies...

...counterpart for the troubled workings of his mind. Consider this single sentence from the first soliloquy: Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...it fed on; and yet within a month Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed...