 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...  Hamletby William Shakespeare - 1971 - 104 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | David Wills - Philosophy - 2005 - 248 pages
...imparts concerning his murder is overlaid, on the one hand, with an interdiction regarding speaking ("But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house I could a tale unfold . . ." [1.5.13-15]), and on the other hand, with anxiety about the time permitted him to talk and about... | |
 | C. J. S. Thompson - Fiction - 2005 - 365 pages
...father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away," This embodies an early tradition, that certain spirits were kept in purgatory during the day and allowed... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...sent to his account, Unhous'led, disappointed, unanel'd, and confesses that he is confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. She is on stronger ground in her interpretation of the cellarage scene, in which the Ghost speaks from... | |
 | Zsuzsa Rawlinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 214 pages
...orgy of authorial slickness, what ultimately comes through is the author's "sincerely felt" belief: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold [...] But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (I, v, 14-21) However; if there... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
..."secrets" (1.5.14). He describes not the secrets, therefore, but the effect they would have if disclosed: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (1.5.15-20) As the sight of the Medusa turned spectators... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...torture of the body would extend even to one who hears about "the secrets of my prison-house" (1.5.14): I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...two eyes like stars start from their spheres. Thy knotty and combined locks to part. And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful... | |
 | João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman - Philosophy - 2007 - 477 pages
...(2.2.554-559) and the Ghost's description of the effect that his tale of torment would have on Hamlet: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful... | |
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