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Re: Methinks she thinks!
- Subject: Re: Methinks she thinks!
- From: Toby Reiter <treiter@sausage.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: 1998/04/07
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On 7 Apr 1998, Bill Crerar wrote:
> Joe Seeley (joeschmoo@nospam.org) wrote:
> : In article <6g1v06$37l$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert) wrote:
> : >Who was it who said "He protests too much, methinks" ;-)
>
> : Actually good sirrah it goes more like, "Methinks she protests too much" and
> : of course is Shakspeare (however you like to spell). I believe it is from the
> : Taming of the Shrew...
>
> Craving both your pardons, sirs, but I believe "Methinks the lady doth
> protest too much" was quoth by that melancholy Dane, Hamlet, in the play
> bearing his name, in reference to his mother.
Actually, it was his mother who said the line. She says it during the play
depicting her own incest with the King's brother which Hamlet had
arranged the players to perform.
Toby Reiter