... if the end of his- tory is but the end to a certain concept of history.”1 So the question is, after “what history”? And what does it mean to reflect again? Is it still possible, after Hamlet’s supplication that “the rest is silence,” to “speak,” as Horatio proposes, “to th’yet unknowing world...

... the recognition that Hamlet’s character had achieved in France, as attested by another keen reader of Shakespeare, Châteaubriand, whose hero René was quickly linked to Hamlet.15 Both Staël’s and Owenson’s protagonists have Shakespearean names: Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and Horatio M., respectively. Oswald...

.... Between his prologue and epilogue, he presents a series of thirty-six sections, many of which self-consciously interrupt the smooth progression of his argument. Here, for example, are the opening words of sections 25, 28, and 29: “Leaving Horatio poised almost on the edge of extinction . . .” (p...

... in the play’s opening scene ushers in a bourgeois subjecthood whose embodiment is Horatio, the disinterested or “just” interpreter. Warley reads Horatio’s lines as if they were lyric poetry, and the approach pays big dividends. From Horatio’s first attempts to speak to the ghost to his closing vow to tell...

... to the throne.22 Hamlet, whom Claudius declares the “most immediate” to the throne (Q2 1.2.109; F 1.2.107), might well feel resentment at not having been chosen king on his father’s death (a resentment he expresses later to Gertrude and to Horatio [Q2 3.4.98 – 99; F 3.4.91 – 92, 5.2.64 Hamlet’s...

... our uneasiness. When Horatio addresses it, his verb choice offers thematic foreshadowing and also heightens the immediate sense of unnaturalness: “What art thou that usurp’st this time of night . . . ?” (I.i.46; my italics). He demands of the ghost...

...- tiously silent Hamlet, who, summoned outside by Horatio and Mar- cellus, himself joins the vigil. When the Ghost reappears, Horatio and Marcellus follow, carefully observing the meeting. Polonius hatches the plot to spy on Hamlet and Qphelia, and Claudius employs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...

.... But, “be Brents Stirling 327 not too tame neither.” This strong episode is quickly succeeded by a “choral” piece, Hamlet’s key lines to Horatio which express defin- itively both his ideal and the moral conception upon which the play rests : and blest...

... In the rest of the scene, Altamont and Horatio (Massinger’s Ro- mont) alternately recount the benefits conferred on them by Sciolto (Massinger’s Rochfort) . The whole of Altamont’s earlier experiences is compressed into a few insignificant lines. The spectator, as a conse- quence, congratulates...

... : Transcendental Pioneers of an American Esthetic. By CHARLESR. METZGER.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. 153. $3.00. This little book offers a closely reasoned analysis and interpretation of the aesthetic ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friend Horatio...

..., in the twelve lines between Horatio’s “sweet Prince” speech and his “All this can I / Truly deliver” speech (and immediately before the latter) occurs the announcement that Kosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Doesn’t this announcement of the success of a plot devised by Hamlet, about which even...

...Edward G. Cox Horatio Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1947. Pp. xiv + 899. $10.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 REVIEWS Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. General Editor, HORATIOSMITH. New York : Columbia...

... Horatio Alger’s first Rugged Dick novel in 1867 to Dashiell Hammett’s Thin Man in 1934, as he attempts to show what he calls the “serial nature” (8) of these three fictional genres that begin “in the years of the modern and discover the modern” (6).Examining a period of social and economic...

... and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. 153. $3.00. This little book offers a closely reasoned analysis and interpretation of the aesthetic ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friend Horatio Greenough, the sculptor. As philosophical criticism it is thoughtful...

... Hamlet? Second, are Christian and Stoic ideas of providence truly compatible? Hamlet indeed does say that “there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” (5.2.150). 2 I wonder how we read this alongside Horatio’s nihilistic “carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, / . . . accidental judgements...

... and science, but Marx himself, intriguingly, is largely absent from Moretti’s essays that fully engage quantitative methodologies. Moretti’s thesis that Horatio anticipates the modern European bureaucratic state remains powerful and provocative. That the data do not falsify the thesis does not mean...

...? First, it is a play in which Shake- speare, the dramatist godfather, has been both careless and careful with his name-making. His Danes, for instance, are by no means recognizably Danish. As Harry Levin remarks, “If Marcellus and Clau- ciius are Latin, Bernard0 and Horatio are Italian...

... of the keenest thinkers of the age. Mr. Matthiessen cannot resist the invitation to wander down some interesting by-paths. In treating the subject of functionalism in art the author takes an excursion into the writings of Horatio Greenough and later he takes some time off to write about Millet...

... Haven : Yale University Press Linguistic Series, 1946. Pp. ix + 197. $4.00. Smith, Horatio (general editor). Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1947. Pp. xiv 4- 899. $10.00. Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: The Dryden...

... is the same humoral treatment as applied (pp. 40-43) to the character of Mark Antony ; but Horatio seems a curiously pale figure to select as representing “perfect bal- ance of health” (p. 16). Touches of inadvertence, though not frequent, are present : Jacques’ “fat and greasy citizens” (=deer...