Two from Mike M:
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Mike M writes:
Hamlet, IV, vii:
Laertes. Alas, then she is drowned
Gertrude. Drowned, drowned.
Laertes. Too much of water hast though, poor Ophelia.
Aqua and Marina are likewise comprehensively fluid. "Why not tofana?",
a liquid poison. The 'poison in the ear' is something of an idea fixe
in HAMLET. Its physical manifestation is the poison which Claudius
pours into Hamlet's father's ear.
MM
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Mike M writes:
Prof. Robin Fox's 2011 book 'The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and
the Savage Mind' (Harvard U. P.) devotes a few pages to Ada
http://books.google.com/books?id=MMm30y9a1G0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=robin+fox+tribal+imagination&source=bl&ots=bGrWy4-j7I&sig=ASu_99m8vU8J2p9mdCS09yEPuBo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=atIeUKHfJ4ft6gGbsoGYDw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=189&f=false
FYI, Fox believes that Vere Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare (more or
less)
http://www.robinfoxbooks.com/shakespeareIntro.html
MM