...is no doubt in the play of the incest, and Hamlet states the case directly: 'Let me not think on't - Frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere...poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears - why, she O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer - married with my uncle, My...

...upbraids his mother in this way — in terms of who she is ingesting: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it...on; and yet within a month — / Let me not think on't" (I.ii. 143-46; cf. Iv55-57). Yet "think on't" he does, and, in trying not to dwell on it, his...

...incest, and Hamlet states the case direcdy: Let me nor think on't - Frailty, thy name is woman A litde month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears - why, she O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer - married with my uncle, My...

...of heaven Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month — Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman He turns to face away from the door. HAMLET (continuing) A little...

...should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month — Let me not think on't — Frailty, they name is woman — (1.2.135-46) Grief over his father's death is overlaid and...

...workings of his mind. Consider this single sentence from the first soliloquy: Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed...month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she 0 God, a beast that wants discourse...

...of heaven Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed...

...depicted Gertrude's original love for her first husband in similar terms: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it...on; and yet within a month — / Let me not think on't— " (1.2.143-46). Yet "think on't" he does, and, in trying not to dwell on it, his fantasies...

...accepted his father's death and married again: . . . and yet within a month Let me not think on't. Frailty, thy name is woman! [A little month] , or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears, [why she, even she] O God! a beast that wants...

...should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month — Let me not think on't — Frailty, thy name is woman. . . . (11. 135-^46) Grief over his father's death is overlaid...