Lines III.vi.89-94 are here quoted from the sole surviving copy of "The Spanish Tragedy" (1592), now in the British Library (shelf-mark C.34.d.7). They have proved puzzling to modern editors, and a possible "emendation" ...

Throughout Hamlet, the hero shows a persistent fascination with art. Daalder discusses how Hamlet's penchant for the dramatic explains much of his enigmatic and 'mad' behaviour in the play.

Four poems starting with the word 'patience' are usually thought of as Wyatt's: 'Patience, though I have not', 'Patience for my device', Patience, for I have wrong', and 'Patience of all my smart'. Of these the first two ...