By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Hamlet is not the only character in Shakespeare’s play who offers us a soliloquy. Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle and the murderer of Hamlet’s father (Claudius’ own brother), also gives us a detailed insight into his thoughts, for the first time, in this private moment as […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Hamlet’s ‘Now might I do it pat’ soliloquy
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Now might I do it pat, now he is praying’: so begins one of the numerous soliloquies spoken by Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play. Although it’s not the most famous soliloquy in Hamlet – ‘To be or not to be’ and ‘O that this too […]