Well I suppose it wouldn't be proper gaming writing without needing an errata / clarifications document.
I am very intrigued to see your explication of the "Now might I do it pat" soliloquy (not that the whole book isn't equally intriguing, of course). Although the emotional logic of it makes sense, is explained in the text, and is actually echoed in the Ghost's first monologue, it is nonetheless quite foreign to most (more secular) revenge stories I am familiar with. I can't think of other so explicit examples of attempts to, as you say, "game the the holy system" even in other Shakespeare plays. However, my Shakespeare is uneven at best - I'm sure it happens, it just doesn't seem to me to be so prominent anywhere else.
For ease of use I relied on the Moby net text, which seems to be a conflated version. For HHP I sidestep the issue of versioning entirely, even though what we think of as the full text was likely never performed as such.
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I am very intrigued to see your explication of the "Now might I do it pat" soliloquy (not that the whole book isn't equally intriguing, of course). Although the emotional logic of it makes sense, is explained in the text, and is actually echoed in the Ghost's first monologue, it is nonetheless quite foreign to most (more secular) revenge stories I am familiar with. I can't think of other so explicit examples of attempts to, as you say, "game the the holy system" even in other Shakespeare plays. However, my Shakespeare is uneven at best - I'm sure it happens, it just doesn't seem to me to be so prominent anywhere else.
Thank you for answering my question.
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