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OP well this was to be expected, right?! : )
..the people muddied,
Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him..
Samuel Johnson complained that texts of his day rendered " in hugger-mugger" as "in private" (maybe it had better be "in secret"). he went on to write:In reply to:That the words now replaced are better, I do not undertake to prove; it is sufficient that they are Shakespeare's: If phraseology is to be changed as words grow uncouth by disuse, or gross by vulgarity, the history of every language will be lost; we shall no longer have the words of any authour; and as these alterations will be often unskilfully made, we shall in time have very little of his meaning.
all of the online (public domain) versions read hugger-mugger, as does my Complete Works hardcopy; and there is lots of exegesis to be found.
is there any reason, at this far remove, to be publishing "translated" versions of Shakespeare?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted deconstructing Hamlet tsuwm 02/13/05 06:47 AM moments later tsuwm 02/13/05 06:52 AM I'm as confused as anyone tsuwm 02/13/05 07:05 AM Re: I'm as confused as anyone Wordwind 02/13/05 10:59 AM Re: I'm as confused as anyone maverick 02/13/05 03:08 PM Reduplicating Hamlet tsuwm 02/14/05 10:07 PM Re: Reduplicating Hamlet maverick 02/15/05 12:32 AM Re: Reduplicating Hamlet tsuwm 02/15/05 04:16 AM Re: Reduplicating Hamlet Faldage 02/15/05 10:45 AM
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