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Polonius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is presented as sincere (the sincerity of the shallow), but also as an insufferably garrulous and “tedious old fool.” The character of Polonius is the one who says ...
Polonius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is presented as a shallowly sincere, but insufferably garrulous “tedious old fool.” The character of Polonius is the one who says the words, This above all: to thine ...