 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 ページ
...he reduces the idea to a ludicrous image, denies it, and again hints at his own unhappy situation: 'O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.' They seize on the one word 'dreams', and urge their case by equating... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 ページ
...speak of Denmark as a prison — 'one of the worst' — and confesses that he suffers from bad dreams: O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. But neither this nor his admission that the universe and man, 'the... | |
 | Janne Skaffari - 2005 - 440 ページ
...looked at her very earnestly and tender-eyed, but with never a word. (Mary Austin 1908:925) (49) HAMLET. O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. GUILDENSTERN. Which dreams indeed are ambition; for the very substance... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 ページ
...ambiguous evidence. HAMLET. Denmark's a prison . . . ROSENCRANTZ. We think not so, my lord. HAMLET. Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing...bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. (II. ii. 242, 247-50) Is this a genuinely-held philosophic conviction, or merely the ironic use of... | |
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tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. 
