 | Mary Beth Rose - Drama - 1992 - 256 pages
...spectators, he believes, in fact, that plays can elicit self-recognition, confession, even repentance: 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) Although we should not necessarily assume that the character... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...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...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle. (2.2.584) In so doing I lamlet will tent to the quick not only his uncle but also his father's ghost,... | |
 | 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'... | |
 | Walter Albert Davis - American drama - 1994 - 316 pages
...I. Title. II. Series. PS350.D38 1994 812'.509353—dc20 93-38608 To Chris and Steve in abiding love I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. —Hamlet Il.ii.588-92 A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us. Claudius: What do... | |
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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. 
