| Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (Exit.) KIMG HEMRV IV— PART I... | |
| James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - Performing Arts - 1999 - 320 pages
...scrupulous in his demand for proof that he hesitates to act on the evidence of the ghost itself: The spirit I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (H.ii) Yet he will trust the dubious... | |
| Frances Amelia Yates - History - 1999 - 252 pages
...to doubt himself and the validity of his vision. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil. . . . And perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy,...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.17 This is the theory of the diabolic possession of witches. Hamlet tests the ghost's story with... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...55o I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, 555 532 Tree made 'sword-thrusts at the empty throne' ('Hamlet', p. 868). 533 Macready ejaculated 'kindless'... | |
| Gary Banham, Charlie Blake - Philosophy - 2000 - 242 pages
...Specters of Marx: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, where at the close of Act 2, scene 2, Hamlet himself states: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play s the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Here we see the devil himself suspected... | |
| John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...suspicions return: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.587-92) The purpose of staging The Murder of Gonzago (also known as The Mousetrap) is to test... | |
| Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May...damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit] ACT III SCENE IA room... | |
| Mark Balnaves, Peter Caputi - Mathematics - 2001 - 276 pages
...observe his looks; 1'll test him to the quick: 1f he but blench, 1 know my course. The spirit that l have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: 1'll have grounds More relative than this: - the play's the thing Wherein 1'll catch the conscience... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...truth of the idea of Hamlet which I have before put forth. Ib. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. See Sir Thomas Brown : — I believe that those apparitions and ghosts of departed persons are not... | |
| Martin McQuillan - Philosophy - 2001 - 630 pages
...damnation. 'The spirit that I have seen', he reflects, May be a devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. (2.2,594-600) An analysis of the play as a record Hamlet's quest for the grounds on which to base an... | |
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