 | Hilaire Kallendorf - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...Hamlet speaks the lines: ... The spirit that I have seen May be a [dev'l], and the [dev'l] hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me ...l88 The theme of performativity or role playing as employed in Hamlet has been emphasized by many... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...as Hamlet says, . . . The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: 111 have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein 111 catch the conscience of... | |
 | Michael Kessler, Christian Sheppard - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 270 pages
...shared with their time. They grappled with the dilemma whose shadow even haunted Hamlet about the Ghost: "The spirit that I have seen may be the devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape." Nonetheless, the certainty Luther and Teresa sought, and so insistently proclaimed, continued to be... | |
 | Helen Parish, William G. Naphy - History - 2002 - 258 pages
...reflected in contemporary theories of suicide, as well as in Hamlet's poignant concern that the devil 'out of my weakness and my melancholy - as he is very potent with such spirits - abuses me to damn me'.67 The locus dassicus of early modern treatments of melancholia, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...father Before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks; 625 I'll tent him to the quick. If he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, 630 As he is very... | |
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I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have... 
