...WILLIAM: Yes, sir. HAMLET (reciting with slow intensity): 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 . . . (After the word revenge, the lights dim rapidly.) SCENE 2 The lights go up again at once....

...crown, his ambitions, and his queen."How all occasions do inform against me," Hamlet exclaims, 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...

...to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more! - Shakespeare, (Hamlet) Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,...

...let him become a fool. ..." On the other hand, in his play Hamlet, Shakespeare makes a salient point: "....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...

...drowsy, the king in his last days seems to embody the very life his son reproaches himself for leading, "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?" (4.4.33—5). It is also the life-style of his brother; he is the "bloat King" (3.4.184)...

...after/ And pine for what is not'. As Donald Reiman observes, in these lines Shelley echoes Hamlet:^ 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...

...revenge" (34—35). This statement is self-focused, but his next statement is a generalization on man: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more" (35-37). Later on, he references the army going to fight for the...