All 48 Uses
Hamlet
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Buck Mulligan kicked Stephen's foot under the table and said with warmth of tone: —Wait till you hear him on Hamlet, Haines.
Chpt 1Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
- —What is your idea of Hamlet?
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- He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.
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- He proves by algebra that Shakespeare's ghost is Hamlet's grandfather.
Chpt 2
- A side eye at my Hamlet hat.
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- Hamlet she played last night.
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- Gravediggers in Hamlet.
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- He forgot Hamlet.
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- Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit Doomed for a certain time to walk the earth.
Chpt 8
- For he was a medical Jolly old medi... —I feel you would need one more for Hamlet.
Chpt 9
- —Our young Irish bards, John Eglinton censured, have yet to create a figure which the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare's Hamlet though I admire him, as old Ben did, on this side idolatry.
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- I mean, whether Hamlet is Shakespeare or James I or Essex.
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- The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our minds into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas.
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- —That model schoolboy, Stephen said, would find Hamlet's musings about the afterlife of his princely soul, the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato's.
Chpt 9
- The one about Hamlet.
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- He describes Hamlet given in a French town, don't you know, a provincial town.
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- HAMLET ou LE DISTRAIT Pièce de Shakespeare He repeated to John Eglinton's newgathered frown: —Pièce de Shakespeare, don't you know.†
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- Hamlet ou... —The absentminded beggar, Stephen ended.
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- —He will have it that Hamlet is a ghoststory, John Eglinton said for Mr Best's behoof.
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- Who is King Hamlet?
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- It is the ghost, the king, a king and no king, and the player is Shakespeare who has studied Hamlet all the years of his life which were not vanity in order to play the part of the spectre.
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- He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name: Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit, bidding him list.
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- To a son he speaks, the son of his soul, the prince, young Hamlet and to the son of his body, Hamnet Shakespeare, who has died in Stratford that his namesake may live for ever.
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- Is it possible that that player Shakespeare, a ghost by absence, and in the vesture of buried Denmark, a ghost by death, speaking his own words to his own son's name (had Hamnet Shakespeare lived he would have been prince Hamlet's twin), is it possible, I want to know, or probable that he did not draw or foresee the logical conclusion of those premises: you are the dispossessed son: I am the murdered father: your mother is the guilty queen, Ann Shakespeare, born Hathaway?
Chpt 9
- —But Hamlet is so personal, isn't it?
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- Quoth littlejohn Eglinton: —I was prepared for paradoxes from what Malachi Mulligan told us but I may as well warn you that if you want to shake my belief that Shakespeare is Hamlet you have a stern task before you.
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- I feel Hamlet quite young.
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- —If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts.
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- The poisoning and the beast with two backs that urged it King Hamlet's ghost could not know of were he not endowed with knowledge by his creator.
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- I hear that an actress played Hamlet for the fourhundredandeighth time last night in Dublin.
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- If you deny that in the fifth scene of Hamlet he has branded her with infamy tell me why there is no mention of her during the thirty-four years between the day she married him and the day she buried him.
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- Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: Hamlet and Macbeth with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting.
Chpt 9
- When Rutlandbaconsouthamptonshakespeare or another poet of the same name in the comedy of errors wrote Hamlet he was not the father of his own son merely but, being no more a son, he was and felt himself the father of all his race, the father of his own grandfather, the father of his unborn grandson who, by the same token, never was born, for nature, as Mr Magee understands her, abhors perfection.
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- Hamlet, the black prince, is Hamnet Shakespeare.
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- It is in infinite variety everywhere in the world he has created, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As you like It, in The Tempest, in Hamlet, in Measure for Measure—and in all the other plays which I have not read.
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- Gravediggers bury Hamlet (père?) and Hamlet fils.
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- Gravediggers bury Hamlet (père?) and Hamlet fils.
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- The playwright who wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later), the lord of things as they are whom the most Roman of catholics call dio boia, hangman god, is doubtless all in all in all of us, ostler and butcher, and would be bawd and cuckold too but that in the economy of heaven, foretold by Hamlet, there are no more marriages, glorified man, an androgynous angel, being a wife unto himself.
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- Dowden believes there is some mystery in Hamlet but will say no more.
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- Item: was Hamlet mad?
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- O, but you missed Dedalus on Hamlet.
Chpt 10
- In Hamlet, that is.
Chpt 13
- Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.
Chpt 14
- ZOE: (Tragically) Hamlet, I am thy father's gimlet!
Chpt 15
- Hamlet, revenge!
Chpt 15
- My belief is, to tell you the candid truth, that those bits were genuine forgeries all of them put in by monks most probably or it's the big question of our national poet over again, who precisely wrote them like Hamlet and Bacon, as, you who know your Shakespeare infinitely better than I, of course I needn't tell you.
Chpt 16
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- It was idyllic: and Father Conmee reflected on the providence of the Creator who had made turf to be in bogs whence men might dig it out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor people.†
Chpt 10
- Father Conmee, having read his little hours, walked through the hamlet of Donnycarney, murmuring vespers.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(Hamlet as in: Shakespeare's play) Shakespeare often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man (Hamlet) seeks to avenge his father's murder (c. 1601)Famous quotations from Hamlet include:
This above all,—to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die,—to sleep;—
To sleep: perchance to dream:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, hamlet may refer to a community of people that is smaller than a village.