Shakespeare: Protean Plays Final
Tyler Stoltenberg
English 339: Special Topics
Professor Wendy Wall
June 2008
Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1 Lines 168-223
There is a difference here between the Folio and Quarto 2: the line appears as "winter's" in the Folio, "waters" in Quarto 2. This entire line and the one preceding are not in Quarto 1 at all. "Waters" makes sense because Hamlet and the Gravedigger were just talking about how water is one of the main reason for bodies decaying, however I believe "winter's" makes more sense because the immediate previous couplet mentions wind and that ties into this couplet linking that and "winter's flaw."
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