...aunt-mother are deceived. Guildenstern: In what, my dear lord? Hamlet: I am but mad north-northwest. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. (2.2.400-405) Students of the play have suggested that "handsaw" may be a corruption of "hearnshaw,"...

...take me, do you?" he grinned. "I'm not as senile as you might think. 'I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.' Who said that?" "Hamlet?" "Damned right, and aren't you glad I pressured the other admirals into requiring...

...woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so. 10208 Hamlet I am but mad north-north-west; t * 8076 Letter 10209 Hamlet Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? 10210 Hamlet The play's...

...disappears.POLONIUS follows her off.} J/HAMLET: [Suddenly serious, intense.] "I am but mad north-northwest. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. I'll have these players play something like The murder of my father before mine uncle. I'll observe...

...but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. Guildenstern In what, my dear lord? Hamlet I am but mad north -north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. [Enter POLONIUS] Polonius Well be with you, gentlemen! Hamlet Hark you, Guildenstern; — and you too;...

...aunt-mother are deceived. Guildenstern In what, my dear lord? Hamlet I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. The Tragedie of Hamlet 85 Ham. What are they Children? Who maintains 'em? How are they escoted? Will...

...famous quotations, Hamlet, apropos of his supposed insanity, declares, "I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." The traditional explanation for this puzzling metaphor is that "handsaw" was a misprint for "hernshaw,"...

...uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. Guild.: In what, my dear lord? Ham.: I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. (2.2.372-75) No longer stoking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's (and Claudius's) ambition theory, Hamlet...

...it not that I have bad dreams. (Act II, Sc. ii, lines 253-5) Hamlet: I am but mad north-north west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. (Act II, Sc. ii, lines 377-8) Hamlet: What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her?...

...North-West Passage when he has the Dane make the following admission: "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." The speech is heard in Hamlet (c. 1601). It is apparent from these references that Shakespeare knew...