The Hamlet Project

Now he says it. Now he notices his daughters feelings!
Well, this isn’t realistic at all. I’ve never seen a man dive right into action and then realize he needs to acknowledge the feelings of the woman in front of him. Never happens. Nope.
At least, though, he does apologize. Or sympathize. Whatever he’s doing here. And I suddenly want to do a search through the canon to see who else in the plays says sorry. How many apologies are there in Shakespeare? How many sorrys?
There are 90 in the canon. And there are 4 in the play.
It redeems Polonius a bit. He’ll say it twice in this scene.