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- Title
SPEAKING 'BY THE CARD': HAMLET REMEMBERS HIS CATECHISM.
- Authors
DOLOFF, STEVEN
- Abstract
The article considers the idiomatic phrase "speak by the card" used in the scene between Hamlet and the Gravedigger in the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. The glossing of the term by editors including John Dover Wilson, Howard Jenkins, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor is considered. It is proposed that the card is a reference to a short Protestant catechism that was memorized in Elizabethan elementary schools by boys aged 5-7.
- Subjects
SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616 -- Language -- Glossaries, etc.; HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); ALLUSIONS; ENGLISH catechisms; TERMS &; phrases; IDIOMS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2017, Vol 64, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjx060