...politics). Horatio is the obvious choice, for he is a scholar, an observer and given to poetic flourishes ("the morn in russet mantle clad / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill" [1.1.171-72]); Hamlet coopts him as special adviser for the mousetrap play. Even before our text is...

...power to charm; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill: Break we our watch up: and, by my advice, Let us impart what we have seen to-night Unto...

...hallow'd, and so gracious is the time. 1.1-1.2 Hamlet Horatio So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But look: the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. Break we our watch up, and by my advice Let us impart what we have seen tonight Unto...

...charm, So hallo w'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantLE clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: Break we our watch up; and by my advice, Let us impart what we have seen to-night Unto young Hamlet;...

...charm, So hallow 'd and so gracious is the time. Horatio. So have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: Break we our watch up. . . . (Hamlet, ii 147) What is 'the bird of dawning'? Usually the phrase is...

...destruction. Casca — JC I.iii The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth. Achilles— TC V.viii But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. Horatio — Hamlet Li There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there's...

...Gordon Craig's claim to have devised a satisfactory method of kaleidoscopic changes, see p. 218 below. But look, the morn in russet mantle clad Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. (Hamlet, ii 166) What is the point of it all? Surely this : to have certain significances...

...pronounced descriptive speeches. We find matter-of-fact Horatio exclaiming lyrically about the sunrise: "But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill" (i, i, i66).10 Had Bethell glanced more attentively at matter-of-fact Horatio's world...

...and so gracious is that time. HORAT1O So have I heard and do in part believe it. But look, the mora in russet mantle clad Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. Break we our watch up. And by my advice Let us impart what we have seen tonight no Unto young Hamlet....

...couplet which Brook lifts from 1.1, where it comes after the Ghost's visit to the men of the watch: But look, the morn in russet mantle clad Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. The bodies onstage softly rise, stand and look out to the light and to some imagined horizon. Handy...