 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 228 pages
...villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O. vengeance! This is soon followed by: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and...assume a pleasing shape; yea. and perhaps Out of my weakliest- and my melancholy. . . . Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this.... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 288 pages
...emotional inconstancy: 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 my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.598-603) Hamlet sees himself here as too open and vulnerable to influences brought in and through... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 228 pages
...villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, landless villain! O. vengeance! This is soon followed by: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and...assume a pleasing shape; yea. and perhaps Out of my weakliest- and my melancholy. . . . Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this.... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 430 pages
...way to uncertainty: 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...potent with such spirits — Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.575-80) Such thoughts lead to a cycle of delay, self-reproach, continued failure to act, and renewed... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 252 pages
...possession, one that renders him acutely vulnerable to demonic forces: "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."1 19 Hamlet marks, if not the first, then the most enduring representation of a depressed intellectual... | |
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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... 
