
Bow stubborn knees
I studied Hamlet for English A level nearly seventy years ago. However much I loved the language of Shakespeare I was far too young then to understand the and passion with which he wrote. I have just found this nugget in Claudius’ speech after he had killed the King: ‘There the action lies in his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, to give in evidence. What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what