Word: polonius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully is the fluttering exit after the "Words, words, words," speech to Polonius...
...whether they have to make or keep fortunes, their individualities must be pitted against those of others; and in the struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." But how can a man be true to himself, if he does not know himself; and how can he know himself if he mistrusts...