FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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her father’s house and stay there
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take a swim in the nearby stream
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Paris to stay with her brother
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a “nunnery” which may mean a convent or a brothel
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Detailed explanation-1: -He goes on to insult Ophelia and tells her to go to a nunnery. He tells her that this will be the best place for her and, by being a nun, Ophelia won’t have children and produce wicked men like his uncle. All through the scene Claudius and Polonius, Ophelia’s father, are hiding and watching what happens.
Detailed explanation-2: -View images from this item (3) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this text contains the first quotation in which ‘nunnery’ is used as slang for ‘brothel’ – the ironic opposite of a virginal community of nuns.
Detailed explanation-3: -Words from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; the advice Hamlet gives to Ophelia when he bids her live a life of celibacy.
Detailed explanation-4: -As editors rarely fail to note in gloss, ‘nunnery’ was Elizabethan slang for ‘brothel’, so Hamlet really tells Ophelia to go to a whorehouse, where, he believes, she belongs.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?” A nunnery means convent (used mockingly to refer to brothel). Brothel, is a house where men can visit prostitutes. So, he refers to Ophelia, who is his lover, as a prostitutes; a sinful woman.