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" My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ... - Page 183
by William Shakespeare - 1808
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O'Neill's Shakespeare

Normand Berlin - American drama - 1994 - 286 pages
...goes on to acknowledge his guilt, his villainy, and, most poignantly, I feel, his terrible aloneness: "I shall despair; there is no creature loves me, / And if I die no soul will pity me." Fear, pity, acknowledgment of guilt, aloneness, a figure trapped in time's deterministic net. History...
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New-Found-Lands

Alwin Fill - American literature - 1993 - 284 pages
...reflects on his nightmare: "O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! ... I am a villain. ... I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; / And if I die, no soul will pity me" (Shakespeare V.iii. 180-202). The feelings of guilt have arisen from an uneasy conscience but the attacks...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...condemns me for a villain: Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree; Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree,...Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!' I shall despair. There is no creature loves me, And if I die, no soul will pity me And wherefore should...
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Studies in the Life of Christ: Introduction, the Early Period, the Middle ...

Rory C. Foster, Rupert Clinton Foster - Bible - 1995 - 1446 pages
...several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, foul perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree; All several...Throng to the bar, crying all, — Guilty! Guilty!" The person who can study the Sermon on the Mount without suffering distress of conscience had better...
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Approach to Shakespeare

Gilian West - Education - 2015 - 105 pages
...degree; All several sins, all lis'd in each degr6e, Thr6ng to the b£r, crying all 'Guilty! guilty!' 1 shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity m6: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself? Methought the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Jill Kraye - History - 1996 - 350 pages
...have done unto myself? O no, alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself . . . All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all 'Guilty! guilty!' (V.iii.183-91, 199-200) These lines recall Seneca's Oedipus: 'I flee myself, I flee my sense of guilt...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...degree; All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all 'Guilty! guilty!' re, with a prophet's eye, Seen how his son's son should destroy his s shall pity me: Nay, wherefore should they, — since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?...
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree; Murther, stern murther, in the direst degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree,...Throng to the bar, crying all, "Guilty! guilty!" I shall despair; there is no creature loves me, And if I die no soul will pity me. And wherefore should...
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Strands Afar Remote: Israeli Perspectives on Shakespeare

Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...monologues that soared from a recalcitrant pride — Richard articulates these poignantly simple words: I shall despair. There is no creature loves me, And if I die, no soul will pity me — And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself? (5.3.2. 201-4)...
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The Law in Shakespeare

Cushman Kellogg Davis - Law - 1999 - 306 pages
...Ratified. (See No. 259.) THE LAW INf SHAKESPEARE. No. 174. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree ; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree ; All several...degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, — Guilty I guilty! Richard m.. Act S, Scene 3. In this thrilling soliloquy, Eichard, after the awful procession...
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