tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post2800285014227226433..comments2023-07-07T10:56:11.083-04:00Comments on Shakespeare Geek: To A Nunnery, GoDuane Morinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16569611828708601563noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-86942303074196172012014-02-23T23:17:49.241-05:002014-02-23T23:17:49.241-05:00The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia (parti...The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia (particularly in this scene) is effected by which text you are looking at. This scene is in the middle of scene 7 in the Q1 text and is 3.1 in Q2. While most consider Q1 to be a "bad Quarto," it offers a very different (and I consider much more attractive) view to the Hamlet/Ophelia relationship. The placement of the nunnery scene within theroaringgirlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-66050070279755145782014-02-23T19:46:16.380-05:002014-02-23T19:46:16.380-05:00Correction: he actually says "I did love you ...Correction: he actually says "I did love you once". The textual point remains the same. Sorry for the paraphrasing.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08099932219392937069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-22086596582635030272014-02-23T17:47:26.536-05:002014-02-23T17:47:26.536-05:00--Another important point. Shakespeare's langu...<br /><br /><br />--Another important point. Shakespeare's language here is as all-purpose and technically involved as the situation itself. He keeps hearkening back, linguistically, to other occurrences.; fishmongers can be related to nunneries, etc., etc., all for the purpose of whoever might be listening, geared to sound like what he would want them to hear. <br /><br />"...it doesn&JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08099932219392937069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-15160638118375123162014-02-23T17:15:34.618-05:002014-02-23T17:15:34.618-05:00"Is he thinking that she's turned on him ..."Is he thinking that she's turned on him as well? That she's just a pawn being manipulated by her father? Is he putting on a show for the men behind the curtain, or does he mean what he's saying? How far do his feelings for his mother at this moment extend toward all women ("Frailty thy name is woman?") and thus toward Ophelia?"<br /><br />"What is Hamlet'JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08099932219392937069noreply@blogger.com