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William Shakespeare: Hamlet – “Ghost Dad”

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bernyHal

January 5, 2022

I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest.” The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin A Hermes: the title is from Midsummer Night’s Dream V.i.1837 “The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.” But the plot is a prequel to Hamlet focusing on his Wittenberg University days. Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess: the title is from Sonnet 130 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.” “If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.” Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air Language and Languages, Especially English Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: the title is from Timon of Athens IV.iii.2137 “The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon’s an arrant thief, And her palefire she snatches from the sun: The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears…” The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner: the title is from Macbeth V.v.2383 “it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy: the title is from As You Like It II.v.820 “Under the greenwood tree; Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird’s throat, Come hither…

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