...extreme: "The weariest and most loathed worldly life / That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment/Can lay on nature is a paradise / To what we fear of death" (III.i.128-131, 117-126).88 The truth the Duke actually wants to convey lies somewhere in between,...

...howling — 'tis too horrible! OO The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. Hamlet, in contrast to the genuinely terrified Claudio of Measure for Measure, commands a unique authority...

...too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, chronic pain, extreme poverty, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death, Alas, alas! Sweet sister, let me Eve: What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature pardons the...

...howling; 'tis too horrible. The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. (3.1.116—32) This little kernel at the heart of the play is a bit of the almost contemporaneous play...

...about The pendent world. . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.56 "There is no other", Lynch reminds us, "who could say as authentically, of human time, as...

...to become A kneaded clod .... The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death."33 Of course, these feelings are not unremitting. There are times when this same irreligious...

...become A kneaded clod . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. . . . Sweet sister, let me live. (3.1.116-33) Isabella can save Claudio if she submits to Angelo 's...