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- Title
OPHELIA'S `LONGED LONG'.
- Authors
Velz, John W.
- Abstract
The article states that the character in writer William Shakespeare's hamlet Ophelia's wordplay in the Nunnery Scene, "My lord, I have remembrances of yours / That I have longed long to redeliver," must have annoyed poet Alexander Pope Pope--as wordplay usually did--because he emended long to much in his two Shakespeare editions. But if poet Alexander Pope thought that the players had foisted this wordplay into the text, he was probably wrong. Ophelia's phrase was more likely borrowed by Shakespeare from writer Arthur Brooke's book "Romeus and Juliet" where it is used to describe another young woman made uncertain by her loved one's silence.
- Subjects
LITERARY characters; HAMLET (Legendary character); ENGLISH literature; POPE, Alexander, 1688-1744; BROOKE, Arthur
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1987, Vol ns-34, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article