Both Uses of
succession
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing? will they not say afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common players,—as it is most like, if their means are no better,—their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim against their own succession?
Scene 2.2succession = replacement of their careers as children with careers as adults
- How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark?
Scene 3.2 *succession = replacement of the king
Definitions:
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(1)
(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)
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(2)
(succession as in: presidential line of succession) replacement -- especially someone to taking a job or position after another leaves it