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  1. Issue · Aug 11, 2026

    Beautified! - Shakespeare vs. the Romantics (opens the original)

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    That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase; ‘beautified’ is a vile phrase… - Polonius (Hamlet, Act II, II, 111).Beautified. — Verb. Past participle. To have made beautiful. Hamlet writes / he addresses his love letter to “beautified Ophelia.” His careful verbiage : Polonius’ reactionary reaction. Shakespeare is never accidental. Never merely humorous. In this exchange : the introduction to a philosophical duality that persists throughout the play. The Romantic / eternal dialectic<a class=

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