 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 102by Ann Mary Hamilton - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon, Professor of Medicine Michael Hutcheon, M.D. - 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... | |
 | Lindsay Price - 2005 - 52 pages
...at each other as if they know they should stay with HAMLET, but then bow and exit. Now I am alone. I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2005 - 900 pages
...words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab; 570 A stallion! Fie upon't! Foh! About, my brains; hum, 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... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...Denmark is intended by the hero to prove Claudius has murdered his brother, since, as Hamlet knows, guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the very...the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. (Il.ii) Hamlet arranges for the acting company visiting Elsinore to perform a work in... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...(2.2.597) performed for Claudius to see if the king will betray himself. "I have heard," Hamlet says, That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the...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... | |
 | James L. Nelson - Fiction - 2009 - 480 pages
...of complete destruction. There was not one other human being in sight. HAMLET: . . . / bave beard, That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malef actions. SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, ACT II, SCENE 2 r J amuel Bowater felt like Noah's... | |
 | Melissa D. Aaron - Business & Economics - 2005 - 258 pages
...The soliloquy that follows acknowledges the supposed ability of a play to startle the guilty: Ham. I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been strook so to the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. (588-92) From this assumption... | |
 | Karen Newman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 176 pages
...scullion! Fie upon't! Foh! About, my brains. Hum- I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play 585 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... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - Drama - 2008 - 180 pages
...of the Ghost.34 Moreover, Hamlet juggles the evidence of eyes against that of ears when he says that I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. (II. ii. 584-8) This is something he has heard, but in itself it is something which relies... | |
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