 | Karen Newman - Comedy - 2005 - 176 pages
...I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power 595 T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing 600 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.' (II, ii, 543-601) The soliloquy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...blench I know my course. 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...damn me; I'll have grounds More relative than this - the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king, [he goes [a day passes] ACT 3... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2005 - 396 pages
...other perturbation'.4o 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. (2.2.594-9) Stephen Greenblatt's comment that in the play 'a young man from Wittenberg, with a distinctly... | |
 | Susan Rowland - Psychoanalysts as authors - 2005 - 244 pages
...story from the unconscious? The spirit I have seen May be the 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. (II, ii, 594-9) Prince Hamlet, having started to think for himself, now has three choices. He can dismiss... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...and an intellectual: 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. (Il.ii) As one concerned with his spiritual condition, who takes seriously the state of his soul in... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...a danger to his soul: 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. (II.ii.594-9) It is precisely because he is aware of the danger of damnation that he arranges to catch... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Drama - 2005 - 298 pages
...his mind is not of a weasel sucking eggs, but of a devil stealing his soul : the dev'l hath power TF assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of...melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Almses me to damn me. (2.2.599-603) Here and elsewhere in the play, words are combined to suggest a... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...has disappeared, is how to make sure that what the ghost has told him is true, since, as he reflects, "The spirit that I have seen/ May be the devil, and...the devil hath power/ To assume a pleasing shape" (2.2.591-93). So by way of solving these two problems, Hamlet first resolves "to put an antic disposition... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
...what should cause him fear, as he later realizes: "The spirit that I have seen/ May be a devil . . ., yea, and perhaps,/ Out of my weakness and my melancholy,/...very potent with such spirits, /Abuses me to damn me" (2.2.594—9). "The devil take thy soul" (5.1.251), bids Laertes, when Hamlet, the slayer of his father,... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Literary Collections - 2004 - 1160 pages
...Hamlet (1623), II, ii, 636-40: '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.' 172 Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, book IV, prosa 7. ceasing to believe in His divinity but... | |
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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... 
