criminal


 

 

 

The four occurrences of 'criminal' all occur in the same metrical position, and the passages from Hamlet and Coriolanus involve a collocation with 'capital' and strong syntactic similarities:

 

Ham.4.7.7          So criminal and so capital in nature 

Cor.3.3.81           So criminal, and in such capital kind, 

MeM.5.1.404     Being criminal, in double violation

Win.3.2.89         More criminal in thee than it), so thou


16 September 1999

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