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Horatio is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He was present on the field when King Hamlet (the father of the main character, Prince Hamlet ) defeated Fortinbras (the king of Norway ), and he has travelled to court from the University of Wittenberg (where he was familiar with Prince Hamlet) for the funeral of King Hamlet.
Hyam Plutzik (July 13, 1911 – January 8, 1962) was an American poet and educator and is best known for Horatio, a long narrative poem that illustrates the elusiveness of memory through a search for the true identity of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Hamlet and Horatio in the graveyard, by Eugène Delacroix. Ubi sunt poetry also figures in some of Shakespeare's plays. When Hamlet finds skulls in the Graveyard (V. 1), these rhetorical questions appear: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The ghost scenes, indeed, were particular favorites of an age on the verge of the Gothic revival. Early in the century, George Stubbes noted Shakespeare's use of Horatio's incredulity to make the Ghost credible. [17] At midcentury, Arthur Murphy described the play as a sort of poetic representation of the mind of a "weak and melancholy person."
Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as. Imagery in literature can also be instrumental in conveying tone .
William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:
Horatio is an English male given name, an Italianized form [1] of the ancient Roman Latin nomen (name) Horatius, from the Roman gens (clan) Horatia. The modern Italian form is Orazio , the modern Spanish form Horacio .