The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1488  Wednesday, 13 June 2001

From:           Clifford Stetner <
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Date:           Tuesday, 12 Jun 2001 17:25:24 -0400
Subject: 12.1462 Having a Flutter
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.1462 Having a Flutter

>By the way, I find it very believable that Claudius refers to Hamlet as
>"our son" in public when he might be doing something creditable and
>"your son" to Gertrude in private when something discreditable is
>involved.

Regardless of any Hawksian theories of pronoun antecedent agreement, I
doubt that when Claudius is doing discreditable things to Gertrude in
private, he refers to Hamlet at all.

Clifford

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