 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 pages
...aware of his melancholy: 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...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.602-7) Dover Wilson believed that Shakespeare drew on Timothy Bright's Treatise on Melancholy.... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 pages
...prove nothing in Elsinore.5 The spirit that I have seen May be a dev'l, and the dev'l hath power T* assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...do blench, 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...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing (HORATIO gestures for entrances. Enter... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...truth: he forgets his own question in the contrivance of the trap. . . . 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. . . . (FF.2.2: 1639-43) Moving quickly to his revenge after the mousetrap springs, Hamlet finds Claudius... | |
 | Pasquale Memmolo - 1995 - 364 pages
...Zweifel ist ihm verdeckender Schutz und Erkenntnisinstrument: "The spirit that I have seen // May be the devil: and the devil hath power // To assume a pleasing...potent with such spirits - // Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds // More relative than this; the play's the thing // Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
...him to a prudential caution: 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...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (II.ii.610-15) As I have argued in the text, however, if we simply follow the trajectory of the scene... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 pages
...blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen 555 May be a devil, and the devil hath power T assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds H0 More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...HAMLET (continuing) 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...potent with such spirits — Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He sinks behind the theatre so that his face is level with... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - 1998 - 370 pages
...I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of... | |
 | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - 1999 - 320 pages
...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 To assume a pleasing...potent with such spirits — Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of... | |
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I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have... 
