 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...oblique psychic access. Thus one may by 'indirections find directions out' and thereby gain insight. 'I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions.' (Hamlet II.2.584) Shakespeare's use of the play as metaphor, of the mask and disguise, of 'seeming'... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...GUILDENSTERN.) HAMLET. Ay, so, God bye to you. HORATIO (as the silent HAMLET touches his father's throne). I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...he orders his brains about. But now, after a prelimi' nary "Hum," the crucial thought strikes him: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (II.ii.600-604) Strangely, though, as if he has forgotten that he has... | |
 | Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - Art - 1995 - 254 pages
...The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle (Princeton, 1988). STEPHEN ORGEL HE OPENING is irresistible: I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently p . . y They have proclaimed their malefactions . . . I'll have these players Q p Play something like... | |
 | Peter Iver Kaufman - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 194 pages
...Hamlet obliquely address late Tudor playgoers with similar intent when Hamlet schemed against his uncle? I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions (2.2.575-78) Probably not. Hamlet is not camouflaged Calvinism. No amount... | |
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I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. 
