...him to remember: "Adieu adieu! Remember me." On the other hand, Hamlet seems determined to remember: "Remember thee! / Ay thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe." Immediately, Hamlet recalls this potentially devastating determination: "Remember thee! / Yea, from...

...grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. [he rises] Remember thee? Ay thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures...

...Hamlet the playwright connects a distracted condition to memory. To his father's ghost Hamlet responds, "Remember thee? / Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory...a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee?" (5.5.95-7). Webster uses the word's several definitions in his elegy. 20 The dismembered arms and legs...

...images of the Globe Theatre in London.41 When Hamlet states his response to the ghost's injunction, Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe (1.5.95-7), he is imagining his head as a theatre, the space for a memory-system, while the audience,...

...joins it to lines from elsewhere in Hamlet, viz., lv95-99: "Remember thee! /Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee! /Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records." 28 Perhaps "bitter" price? As is often...

...obsess Hamlet. After the ghost departs, Hamlet repeats the words until they become a kind of litany: Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In tliis distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond...

...murder" (1.5.23-25). But the injunction upon which young Hamlet dwells obsessively is that he remember: Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds...this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures...

...and hearing his plea for remembrance, Hamlet replies: "Remember thee? Aye, thou poor ghost, whilst memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee? / Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, / . . . And thy commandment all alone...

...throws responsibility for this work of mourning onto the audience by naming Shakespeare's theatre: "Remember thee? /Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat/ In this distracted globe."7 Thus, the real playhouse is set up to be the scene of final recollection through a premonition...