Note to Hamlet, 2.2.427: "altitude of a chopine"


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The adolescent whom Hamlet addresses as "my lady and mistress" has probably worn a chopine if he has played the part a fashionable lady of Venice, where chopines were all the rage.

As for the altitude of a chopine: It was from 6 to 22 inches.



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