 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...They will not need to be called "to the audience" (387) to learn "how these things came about," to hear "of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, / Of...Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause, / And . . . purposes mistook / Fall'n on th' inventors' heads" (380-385). Horatio's words suggest that the... | |
 | Ann Fairfax Withington - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 301 pages
...with noble and royal bodies, Horatio fulfilled his obligation to his friend. And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world How these things came about. So...casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause. 7 And Fortinbras answered, "Let us haste to hear it and call the noblest to the audience."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...give order that these bodies 370 High on a stage be placed to the view, And let me speak to th'yet unknowing world How these things came about. So shall...casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th'inventors' heads: all this can I Truly... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
...carefully vague about who is responsible for it all, and allows the protestant-providential reading: So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural...deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause, And, in the upshot, purposes mistook FalFn on the inventors' heads. (5.2.382-90) After all, Fortinbras may... | |
 | Bert O. States - History - 1993 - 242 pages
...pain / To tell my story"). And at the end of the play, Horatio dutifully begins Hamlet's story thus: So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural...forc'd cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I Truly deliver. This is all very moving and I wouldn't... | |
 | Herbert R. Coursen - Performing Arts - 1993 - 212 pages
...Fortinbras, Horatio goes to the cowering courtiers, who are now beginning to recognize a new leader. "Let me speak to the yet unknowing world / How these...you hear / Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts." The survivors are not interested. They close their eyes, back away, and fend off Horatio. He grows... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...HAMLET) What is it you would see? If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search. And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world How these things came about. So...casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I... | |
 | R. Rawdon Wilson - Drama - 1995 - 322 pages
...summary that shifts the action to a level of abstraction appropriate to allegory occurs in Hamlet: ... So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural...forc'd cause, And in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads (5.2.380-85) The allegorical abstractness, retelling what had been already... | |
 | Kai Erikson - History - 1995 - 268 pages
...of one was Horatio's speech in the last scene of Hamlet." Mr. Truman had underlined these words: ... let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these...carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause. And, in this upshot, purposes... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...7:15-16). Horatio, who acts as the moral standard of the play, summarizes the action in these words: So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural...forc'd cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n onth' inventors heads. (5.2.389-393) Revenge, the play makes clear, never brings resolution.... | |
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And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook... 
