...Claudius sense a threat to himself in Hamlet's word-play concerning maggots, kings and beggars? SCENE 3 fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one 25 table - that's the end. KING Alas, alas! HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a...

...and revulsion, an obsession with a corporeality that reduces everything to appetite and excretion. "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That's the end" (4.3.22-25). Here, as in the lines about the...

...At supper! where? Hamlet Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...— two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. Claudius Alas, alas! Hamlet A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish...

...goes further. "A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him," he replies and then explains: Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. (4.3.19-25) In the previous scene, Hamlet suggested that death obscures the distinction between family...

...Polonius? At supper. At supper! Where? Not where he eats, but where he is eaten; a certain convocation of worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourself for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but to...

...where he eats, but where a is eaten. A cer20 tain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your 21 worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures...fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat 23 king and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but to one table. That's the end....

...and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. Claudio — MforM III.i Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all...service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. Hamlet— Hamlet IV.iii Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his...

...where he eats, but where 'a is eaten; a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. yowrworm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures...service, two dishes, but to one table — that's the end. (HAM 4, 3, 16-25, my emphasis)15 but also goes beyond it by incorporating the audience and by appealing...

...much as a name in North America, despite its deep roots in the Old World. 4 THE WITNESS WAS A MAGGOT We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. HAMLET (ACT 4, SCENE 3) 1 NOT UNTIL THE 19805 would an American entomologist add the line "Forensic...

...convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatura else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots....service two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. K1NG Alas, alasl HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that...