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1、GeorgeWashingtonUniversityHamletandtheScanningofRevengeAuthor(s):PaulGottschalkSource:ShakespeareQuarterly,Vol.24,No.2(Spring,1973),pp.155-170Publishedby:FolgerShakespeareLibraryinassociationwithGeorgeWashingtonUniversityStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2868854.Accesse
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4、extendaccesstoShakespeareQuarterly.http://www.jstor.orgHamletandtheScanningofRevengePAULGOTTSCHALKNEofthemostperplexingmomentsintheperplexingplayofHamletcomesinthePrayerScenewhenHamlet,con-vincedoftheKing'sguiltandready"todrinkhotblood,"happensuponClaudiusatprayer,unsheathe
5、shissword,isabouttokillhim-andthendoesnot,givingasreasonBenhisunwillingnesstosendClaudius'soultoheavenandthusmarhisownrevenge:Up,sword,andknowthouamorehorridhent,Whenheisdrunkasleep;orinhisrage;Orinth'incestuouspleasureofhisbed;Atgaming,swearing,oraboutsomeactThathasnorelis
6、hofsalvationin't-Thentriphim,thathisheelsmaykickatheaven,Andthathissoulmaybeasdamn'dandblackAshell,wheretoitgoes.Mymotherstays.Thisphysicbutprolongsthysicklydays.(111.iv.88-96)1Inafamousgloss,Dr.Johnsonraisedthedilemma-forcriticstocome:"Thisspeech,inwhichHamlet,representeda
7、savirtuouscharacter,isnotcontentwithtakingbloodforblood,butcontrivesdamnationforthemanthathewouldpunish,istoohorribletobereadortobeuttered."2Inresponsetothisdilemma,thecriticaltrendfromColeridgeonwardhasbeentoinsistthat,howeverhorribleHamlet'swords,theydonotreflectthetruema
8、n;hedoesnotreallymeantocontrivedamnationforthemanhewouldpunish.3Meanwhile,historic
