Anonymous ID: 84a38f April 8, 2020, 9:22 p.m. No.8731217   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8731196

>me thinks ye protest to much

As Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius and others watch the play-within-the-play, the Player Queen, representing Gertrude, declares in flowery language that she will never remarry if her husband dies.[1] Hamlet then turns to his mother and asks her, "Madam, how like you this play?", to which she replies ironically,[2] "The lady doth protest too much, methinks", meaning that the Player Queen's protestations of love and fidelity are too excessive to be believed.[1][3]

 

The quotation comes from the Second Quarto edition of the play. Later versions contain the simpler line, "The lady protests too much, methinks".[4][5]