Re: Just want to point out...corbisthecaFebruary 26 2008, 02:51:22 UTC
It's Marcellus's line in my text too -- Arden Complete Works. Though apparently not in the Online Lit version. One of those printing discrepancies between editions that may be traceable to different early versions of the play in which characters were portrayed in slightly variant ways, perhaps? The words didn't go directly from W.S.'s head to Quarto to Folio, after all -- there were a few years of performances in there in between. If I were the sort of person who did textual research, I'd know how to find out more about this particular line attribution... unfortunately, I'm not, and the person I know who might know happens to be knee-deep in rehearsals for Much Ado.
I'm pretty much with infiniteviking on the temperance speech. This is "I hate Claudius" railing that gets out of hand and "incidentally" pulls out this idea of a mole of nature/stamp of one defect/dram of eale (which in my text is spelled "evil") that's there from the get-go but by their actions/habits/attitudes spreads and corrupts everything -- like a rotten spot in the center of a piece of fruit -- or, if you'll forgive the parallel, the state of Denmark.
I'm pretty much with infiniteviking on the temperance speech. This is "I hate Claudius" railing that gets out of hand and "incidentally" pulls out this idea of a mole of nature/stamp of one defect/dram of eale (which in my text is spelled "evil") that's there from the get-go but by their actions/habits/attitudes spreads and corrupts everything -- like a rotten spot in the center of a piece of fruit -- or, if you'll forgive the parallel, the state of Denmark.
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