 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.  Montalva, or, Annals of guilt - Page 114by Ann Mary Hamilton - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Terence Hawkes - Art - 2002 - 182 pages
...can 'make mad the guilty and appal the free' (2.2.558) does not lack confidence, and his assurance I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (2.2.584-90)... | |
 | Terence Hawkes - Art - 2002 - 180 pages
...can 'make mad the guilty and appal the free' (2.2.5581 does not lack confidence, and his assuranceI have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (2.2.584-901... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...deceit-therapy - that the truth is not sufficiently impressive of itself and needs the help of art. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (Hamlet, n, ii, 584-8) So the play's the thing wherein to catch the... | |
 | Julie Sanders - Drama - 2001 - 274 pages
...Prince uses the staging of 'The Murder of Gonzago' by visiting players to determine his uncle's guilt: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions; (2.2.566-9) Here, as in Hamlet, we have ghosts and guilt. But the expectations... | |
 | Amy Benjamin - Cognitive styles in children - 2002 - 184 pages
...or censorship issues. Why do some performances evoke actual riots? * Think about what Hamlet says: "I have heard/ that guilty creatures sitting at a.../Been struck so to the soul that presently /They have confessed their malefactions." What does this mean? Why would this be so? * Find out about some interesting... | |
 | William W. Demastes - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 214 pages
...through which Hamlet "catches" the conscience of Claudius: I have heard that guilty creatures sitttng at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. —(2.2.574-78) Though usmg a different terminology, Shakespeare's point... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...cervello mio! Uhm - ho sentito che assistendo a un dramma Dei malfattori sono stati colpiti così a fondo Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. 590 Por murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, 615 A scullion! Fie upon't! Foh! About, my brain! I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently 620 They have proclaim 'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With... | |
 | James Michael Thomas - Performing Arts - 2005 - 379 pages
...this case, one that has profound results. An event in the background story sets up the plan. HAMLET I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim' d their malef actions; I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father... | |
 | Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon - Music - 2004 - 274 pages
...Rewriting Hamlets lines (the original words are in brackets), we might say: ... I have heard That mortal [guilty] creatures sitting at a play Have, by the...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have accepted [proclaim'd] their mortality [malefactions] . . . (2.2.584-588) How, though, might we come... | |
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