Halliwell, MichaelOpera Journal
24.) “Where love is great, the littles doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”–Hamlet 25.) “I must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.”–Hamlet 26.) “This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the...
As Hamlet said, “The readiness is all.”Fortunately, there’s actually a management discipline designed specifically to address this issue. It’s called scenario planning. Scenario planning takes for granted that the future is uncertain. But it also notes that there are deep trends shaping...
Hamletdoesn’t live under glass. It is a perpetual motion machine, forever ripe for reimagining, renewal, infinite meaning-making. The storyworld of Hamlet has become an infinite space to explore and mine. That’s what fuels me, I tell students, that’s...
it ("to be or not to be"), and in response to Horatio's attempt to talk him out of accepting the duel, says: "If it be now, 'tis not to/Come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now/Yet it will come. The readiness is all" (3.1.56; 5.2.160-163)....
We can’t escape fate, says Hamlet. When the sparrow falls, why not accept the message, and therefore accept providence, whatever it be? The readiness is all. On the morning before the great sea-battle of Drepanum between Carthage and the Roman Republic in 249 BC, the chickens refused to...
aHe knocked on the door again and again, the parrot all replied, but no one opened the door. 他在门再次敲了,所有回复的鹦鹉,但没人打开了门。[translate] aShakespeare’s ‘the readiness is all’ and Confucius’ ‘ He has not lived in vain who dies the day he is told about the Way’...
Enter HAMLET and HORATIOHAMLETSo much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;You do remember all the circumstance?HORATIORemember it, my lord?HAMLETSir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,That would not let me sleep: methought I layWorse than the mutines in the bilboes. Ras...
“The readiness is all,” says Hamlet, but is it really? How do we know we’re ready, really? The catch is, the only way to know you’re ready is to throw yourself out there, and see if you are.I didn’t feel I was ready, this weekend. I wasn’t ready to pitch a comic,...
It is to Horatio that Hamlet writes upon his return to Denmark, and Horatio to whom he confides his thoughts before the duel: “the readiness is / all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what / is't to leave betimes” (V. ii. 223-225)? Hamlet has not placed this much...