On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> You are in effect saying that if someone asked Hamlet who was the King of
> Denmark he would have been unable to speak the word, "Claudius." You make
> an unacceptable shift in the meaning of the word "know" in this context.
If asked that question, Hamlet's response would have been "Do you mean the rightful king or the usurper?", the answer being Hamlet (in the first instance) or "Claudius" (in the second). But I'm not sure what Joanna means by the word "know" here. Certainly Hamlet knows Ophelia very well (including in the "biblical" sense) and he also plainly knows exactly what sort of scum Polonius is. But indeed, as Stoppard noted, Rosencrantz and Guildensterjn have no idea who anybody is (including themselves).
Shane Mage
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