Hamlet

[highbury57]

Shakespearean inn associated with concern in Hamlet(10)P*R*E***N*
Can't get it and I have just returned from seeing Cumberbatch in the play!

[Mamyalynne]

Persephone

[Baldric]

Portending ?

[highbury57]

Thanks. I have a choice but cannot gloss either one at present.

[Mamyalynne]

I was drawn to PH for Inn, but may well be off the mark.

[highbury57]

there is one other clue that crosses this one. Theocritus put pastoral first(8)
I*Y**I** Last letter of this one is 7th letter of Hamlet clue

[scorpiojo]

Idyll ist

[highbury57]

Thanks. Now the Hamlet clue is P*R*E*T*N*

[highbury57]

The word porpentine appears in the play.

[Mamyalynne]

Well done, sorry for the duff answer.

[Mamyalynne]

"I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand an end, like quills upon the fretful porpentine."

[highbury57]

Thanks for all the help. We got there at the end. Cumberbatch a pretty good Hamlet.

[Mamyalynne]

I bet he is.

[blinker]

Pore tine is an inn in comedy of errors.

[blinker]

Apologies left out a letter .porpentine