Professor Hopkins agreed, saying Shakespeare was probably a humanist (Shakespeare and Religion 1). ... French and English celebrations of Twelfth Night included a King's Cake, remembering the visit of the Three Magi, and ale or wine (a King's Cake is part of the observance of Mardi Gras in French Catholic culture of the Southern USA). ...
Later, an Italian version by Bandello, translated into French by Belleforest in his Cent Histoires Tragiques, was rendered into English in 1608 (Greenan, 83). ... Claudius also admonishes Hamlet of continued grief or mourning over the death of his father, but saying that excessive mourning is morally corrupt and even against God when he says: "But to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness, 'tis unmanly grief, it shows a will most incorrect to heaven, a heart unfortified, a mind impatient, and understanding simple and unschooled; fie, its a fault to he...
In French, adieu is utilized just when one is stating farewell, and not wanting to see that individual once more. ... Not just would Hamlet have been kinder in saying such effortlessly culpable words, additionally he presumably would not have conveyed the adoration letter portrayed above whatsoever. ...
Polonius eventually offers his last piece of advice saying, "This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ... The advice is sound and Laertes accepts it as he departs for France. ...
