...conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.17 As the play draws to its tragic close, Hamlet confides to...

...conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. (III.i.83-88) The Stoic resolution to commit suicide and thus...

...conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. (3.1.83-85) Conscience is masculine "resolution" to do one's...

...conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. (83-88) The speech, as G. Wilson Knight tells us, "is built...

...does make cowards [of us all], And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you now, The fair Ophelia, Nymph, in thy orisons Be...

...conscience does make cowards of us all; and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their current turn awry, and lose the name of action. (Clark & Wright, 191 1, p. 1026) This remains to be...

...[of us all}. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. 85 And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry. And lose the name of action This monologue has been interpreted hundreds of times, and in...

...conscience does make cowards of us all, And thns the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. (III. 1. 56-60, 83-8) 1 1 See Rose (1996a, 1996b) for an interesting...

...conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. (EL 1.83-87) Hamlet manifestly believes that it is our capacity...

...does make cowards [of us all], And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o 'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action . . . (111,i,82-87; parentheses in original) Through these inconsistencies,...