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Hamlet

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328 residence remaining in their usual home

330 inhibition (city) ban on performing plays

331 late innovation recent political insurrection/new fashion for boy actors 332 estimation reputation

337 eyrie nest/brood

337 eyases young hawks

337 cry ... question shrilly dominate the debate (i.e. the rivalry between child and adult acting companies) 338 tyrannically outrageously/vehemently

339 berattle ... stages clamor against the public theaters (where the adult acting companies perform) 340 many ... thither many fashionable young men hardly dare attend the public theaters as they are so afraid of being mocked by the playwrights working for the boy actors 343 escoted supported

343 quality (acting) profession

343 no ... sing i.e. only until their voices break

345 common i.e. adult

345 like likely

346 means financial resources

347 succession future professions

349 tar incite

350 no ... question the acting companies paid for the plots of no new plays unless they featured the quarrel between the children's dramatists and the adult actors (or "without the playwright and the adult acting company coming to blows over the controversy") 355 carry it away win the day

356 his load i.e. the world, carried on Hercules' shoulders (possibly a reference to the emblem of the Globe Theatre) 359 mows mouths, grimaces

360 ducats gold coins

361 picture in little miniature portrait

361 more than natural i.e. unnatural

362 philosophy science

362.1 Flourish trumpet fanfare

365 appurtenance appropriate accompaniment

366 comply observe proper courtesies

366 garb appropriate manner

366 my extent the behavior I extend

367 fairly courteously

368 entertainment welcome

371 but mad north-north-west only mad when the wind is in the north-northwest/only slightly mad (like a faulty compass that points north-northwest rather than north) 372 handsaw handheld saw (some editors emend to "hernshaw," a type of heron) 376 swathing-clouts swaddling-clothes in which a newborn baby was wrapped 377 Happily perhaps

380 You ... indeed Hamlet pretends to Polonius that he is mid-conversation with his friends 384 Roscius a famous Roman actor

386 Buzz, buzz! dismissive exclamation made in response to idle gossip or old news 388 ass may pun on "arse"



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