 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 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...  The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight - Page 44by William Shakespeare - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Crosby - Book collectors - 1986 - 368 pages
...reminds me of a rather profane blunder that an Actor is said to have made in Hamlet; as follows:— "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and...As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me too—dammel" 5 "The devil," that time, was too "potent" for him; and the mental association of his... | |
 | John Wray Young - Acting - 1967 - 180 pages
...players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I* il tent him to the quick; if he but blench, I know my...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me; Tll have grounds More relative than this—the play's the thing Wherein Tll catch the conscience of... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - Drama - 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...I'll have grounds More relative than this — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. (II.ii.598-605) The ghost cannot be... | |
 | 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...me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing (HORATIO gestures for entrances. Enter KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ,... | |
 | Pasquale Memmolo - European drama - 1995 - 364 pages
...inszenierten Spiels selbst. Das Spiel mit dem Zweifel ist ihm verdeckender Schutz und Erkenntnisinstrument: "The spirit that I have seen // May be the devil:...I'll have grounds // More relative than this; the play's the thing // Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." (n,l). des vom Affekt erfaßten... | |
 | Drama - 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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He sinks behind the theatre so that his face is level with the stage. Yes! That's it. HAMLET (continuing)... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my...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 HEMRY IV— PART I 0y... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 as prowling the court,... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my...relative than this: — the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit] ACT III SCENE IA room in the castle. [Enter KING CLAUDIUS,... | |
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