Sunday 29 March 2009

Who's Pat then?

“Now might I do it pat, now he is a-praying."
(Hamlet, III, iii)

8 comments:

R.H. said...

"For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy."
(Hamlet, llll, iiiii)

Who's Robin?

Jayne said...

I always sit pat when I gets me a decent hand in poker :P

TimT said...

The absolute best line EVER in poetry is the following, by William Cowper:

The poet's heart went pit-a-pat.

R.H. said...

I staged Hamlet at blog Laugh-arse loonyPop with Miss Pavlov as Ophelia and Mister Bahnisch as the king. It was an enormous hit and I got requests for King Lear but my players were reluctant.

R.H. said...

The setting was a Paddington cafe, with Yorick in the middle of the table. He had a speaking part but only Hamlet could hear him.
Miss Tartan (at her request) played Orsic.

R.H. said...

OSRIC (beg his pardon)

Alexis, Baron von Harlot said...

It's the kind of thing they show on America's Funniest Home Videos. Not that I'd know. Oh, no. Not me.

mischa said...

Some have interpreted this as a reference to Patrick, Hamlet's drunken Irish companion. I read an article once that made quite a strong, and amusing, case for Patrick's existence. Can't remember where, but.