 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Tragedy - Page 108by William Shakespeare - 1770 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | R. Clifton Spargo - History - 2004 - 338 pages
...self-remembrance, Hamlet disdains food precisely as a signifier of our too limited human dimension, crying "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? — a beast, no more" (4.4. [c.23-25]).25 Indeed Hamlet's disdain for food and for... | |
 | Paul Lewis - Critical realism - 2004 - 330 pages
...individual and collective existences, has become our major concern? Have we forgotten the Bard's warning: 'What is a man, / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.'?9 These are economic questions that are too serious to be left to... | |
 | Noël Greig - Playwriting - 2005 - 232 pages
...non-naturalistic language. THE STRUGGLE FOR ARTICULACY How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, * [Intelligence]*... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...before. [Rosencrantz, Guildenstem and the rest pass on How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more: Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | O. Hood Phillips - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 240 pages
...order. This tradition is seen by Richard O'Sullivan5 to be reflected by Shakespeare in the passage : What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast no more. Since He that made us with such large discourse Looking before and... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - History - 2005 - 125 pages
...Revolutionary Spirit of America." The Sun April 2005: 412. Chapter One Media and Men: The Making of a Jackass What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed a beast, no more. -Hamlet Act IV, Scene 4 This chapter begins on the pages of the August... | |
 | David G. Riede - English poetry - 2005 - 236 pages
...(138). For both eras the futility of human endeavor produced the dilemma of the dispirited Hamlet: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more" (138, and see Hamlet IV.iv.33-35). Again seeming to describe Victorian... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...apprehension, how like a god: the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals; . . . .J (II,ii,3i6ff.) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | Lawrence L. Horstman - Fiction - 2006 - 236 pages
...motives and to deduce their origin in terms of cosmic properties, as begun in the next chapter. 92 What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 430 pages
...example this passage from the soliloquy beginning "How all occasions do inform against me" (IV.iv.32-66): What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
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