FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!”
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“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”
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“Much madness is great ones much not unwatched go.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gertrude responds with the lines that have now become famous: ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks. ‘ One of the reasons the line may have become so well-known – albeit with the word-order often slightly altered – is that the actor playing Gertrude can ‘read’ the line in a number of different ways.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet then turns to his mother and asks her, “Madam, how like you this play?", to which she replies, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks", meaning that the Player Queen’s protestations of love and fidelity are too excessive to be believed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gertude’s comment “The lady protests too much, methinks’"’, reveals her own guilty conscience. The sentiment of this particular statement is to essentially show that a person can deny something so many times that it starts to become unbelievable.
Detailed explanation-4: -"The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (3.2. 254). Gertrude is speaking to Hamlet at the play. She is talking about the queen in the play and saying how she is so insincere. She then vows her love to her husband.
Detailed explanation-5: -idiom. to express an opinion or fact so strongly or so often that people start to doubt that you are telling the truth: She keeps trying to impress on me how she doesn’t like him but does she protest too much? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.