All 4 Uses
melancholy
in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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- GUIL: He's-melancholy.†
Act 2 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- PLAYER: Melancholy?†
Act 2
- PLAYER: Melancholy.†
Act 2
- PLAYER: Lucianus, nephew to the king ...usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother's incestuous marriage ...loses his reason ...throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy ...staggering from the suicidal (a pose) to the homicidal (here he kills "POLONIUS") ...he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity-(a somewhat oedipal embrace) begs her to repent and recant (He springs up, still talking.)†
Act 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)