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		<title>Pelion and Ossa in The Merry Wives of Windsor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 2, Scene 1) Mistress Page: I had rather be a giantess, and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.]]></description>
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Mistress <span id="more-108"></span> Page: I had rather be a giantess,<br />
and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you<br />
twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.</p>
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		<title>Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act 5, Scene 1) LAERTES: O, treble woe Fall ten times treble on that cursed head, Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile, Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: [Leaps into Ophelia's grave] Now pile your dust upon the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</em> (Act 5, Scene 1)</p>
<p>LAERTES: O, <span id="more-106"></span> treble woe<br />
Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,<br />
Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense<br />
Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,<br />
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:<br />
[Leaps into Ophelia's grave]<br />
Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,<br />
Till of this flat a mountain you have made,<br />
To o&#8217;ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head<br />
Of blue Olympus.</p>
<p>(&#8230;.)</p>
<p>HAMLET: &#8216;Swounds, show me what thou&#8217;lt do:<br />
Woo&#8217;t weep? woo&#8217;t fight? woo&#8217;t fast? woo&#8217;t tear thyself?<br />
Woo&#8217;t drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?<br />
I&#8217;ll do&#8217;t. Dost thou come here to whine?<br />
To outface me with leaping in her grave?<br />
Be buried quick with her, and so will I:<br />
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw<br />
Millions of acres on us, till our ground,<br />
Singeing his pate against the burning zone,<br />
Make Ossa like a wart!</p>
<p>These references to the gigantomachia in the last act of Hamlet are reinforced by the earlier exchange of Laertes with Claudius:<br />
CLAUDIUS What is the cause, Laertes,<br />
That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?<br />
(Act 4, Scene 5)</p>
<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Hamlet</em>, like the gigantomachia, concerns the rights of rulership, of fatherhood and of inheritance as these are fought over between generations. In the end, Hamlet and Laertes kill each other with foils in a denoument recalling the end of the rebellion of the twin Aloadai giants against the gods (when they piled <a title="The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Apollodorus" href="/mce/?p=301">Pelion on Ossa</a>): &#8220;Artemis finished off the Aloadai in Naxos by means of a trick: in the likeness of a deer she darted between them, and in their desire to hit the animal they speared each other.&#8221; (Apollodorus, <em>Library</em> 1.53)</p>
<p>Just before their final duel Hamlet says to Laertes:<br />
Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil<br />
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,<br />
That I have shot mine arrow o&#8217;er the house,<br />
And hurt my brother.<br />
(Act 5, Scene 1)</p>
<p>Later still: &#8220;I&#8217;ll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance&#8230;.&#8221; (Act 5, Scene 1)</p>
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		<title>Equinox in Hamlet</title>
		<link>https://www.makrolog.de/mce/?p=103</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some say that ever &#8216;gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour&#8217;s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow&#8217;d and so gracious is the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some say that ever &#8216;gainst that season comes<br />
Wherein our <span id="more-103"></span> Saviour&#8217;s birth is celebrated,<br />
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:<br />
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;<br />
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,<br />
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,<br />
So hallow&#8217;d and so gracious is the time.<br />
(Hamlet, 1.1.173-179)</p>
<p>Compare Beckett on the <a title="The space of the door 4 (equinox)" href="/mce/?p=23">equinox</a> and on the <a title="The space of the door 3" href="/mce/?p=17">second dark</a>.</p>
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