Maria Volkonskaya

mary.volkonskaya@gmail.com
The C.R.E.W., 29 April 2016

Discussion area: Shakespeare

I.
HAM. Now, mother, whats the matter?
QUEEN Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
HAM. Mother, you have my father much offended.
QUEEN Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
HAM. Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
QUEEN Why, how now, Hamlet!
HAM. Whats the matter now?
QUEEN Have you forgot me?
HAM. No, by the rood, not so;
You are the queen, your husbands brothers wife;
And would it were not so! you are my mother.
(Hamlet, III, iv)

II.
a. Perhaps he loves you now, / And now no soil nor cautel 1 doth besmirch / The virtue of
his will (Hamlet, I, iii)
b. But what we do determine oft we break (Hamlet, III, ii)
c. MAR. What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?
TI. Fear her not, Lucius: somewhat doth she mean:
See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee
(Titus Andronicus, IV, i)

III.
a. Since nature cannot choose his origin (Hamlet, I, iv)
b. The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, / That it had it head bit off by it young (King
Lear, I, iv)

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deceit
IV. CONVERSION (zero-derivation/functional shift)

a. It out-Herods Herod (Hamlet, III, ii)

b. Thou losest here, a better where to find (King Lear, I, i)
c. The hearts / That spanieled me at heels... (Antony and Cleopatra, IV, xii)
d. a hand that kings / Have lipped (Antony and Cleopatra, II, v)
e. Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle: / I am no traitors uncle (Richard II, II, iii)
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds (Romeo and Juliet, III, v)

> X me no Xs
Madam me no madam, but learn to retrench your words; and say, Mam; as yes, Mam,
and no, Mam; as other ladies women do (John Dryden, The Wild Gallant (1663), II, ii)
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day (Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb (1730), I, ii)
Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes (Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King
(c.18421885))
Cody me no Codys about America (Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody (1972))