Hamlet
Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing--no, not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across,
Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face,
Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th' throat
As deep as to the lungs--who does me this?
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet has been saddened by
the death of his father. When he finds out that is was the
doing of his crooked uncle, Hamlet's chief goal is to
revenge the ignoble de…