Vol. 08 · Shakespeare ·Hamlet, Act III.i ·Hamlet
"Get thee to a nunnery."
Not quite the line.
How it's usually quoted
"Get thee to a nunnery."
What Shakespeare actually wrote
"Get thee to a nunnery, go." Hamlet — Hamlet, Act III.i
Why it matters
The curt "go" is the sting. In Elizabethan slang "nunnery" could also mean brothel, which doubles the cruelty to Ophelia popular quotation erases.
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