| Walter Albert Davis - American drama - 1994 - 316 pages
...I. Title. II. Series. PS350.D38 1994 812'.509353—dc20 93-38608 To Chris and Steve in abiding love I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. —Hamlet Il.ii.588-92 A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us. Claudius: What do... | |
| Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...GUILDENSTERN.) HAMLET. Ay, so, God bye to you. HORATIO (as the silent HAMLET touches his father's throne). I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous... | |
| John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...he orders his brains about. But now, after a prelimi' nary "Hum," the crucial thought strikes him: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (II.ii.600-604) Strangely, though, as if he has forgotten that he has... | |
| Marina Jenkyns - Drama - 1996 - 260 pages
...touch Claudius; it will act like a truth drug giving Hamlet the evidence he needs. And indeed it does. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (ibid.: 661) Hamlet's image of the power of the play is shocking. It... | |
| Peter Iver Kaufman - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 194 pages
...Hamlet obliquely address late Tudor playgoers with similar intent when Hamlet schemed against his uncle? I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions (2.2.575-78) Probably not. Hamlet is not camouflaged Calvinism. No amount... | |
| Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't,foh! About, my brain. I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions; He drags himself into action and looks again at the model theatre. Ideas,... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...murders of their husbands — making real Hamlet's lines about the drama's power of verisimilitude: I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. Rhetoric simply offered Heywood another weapon of argument; rhetoric... | |
| Donald E. Westlake - Fiction - 1996 - 530 pages
..."Nay," he said, "you will not know this piece, Hjalmar. But let me go on a little, all the same — ! I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak. "I understand that very well," said Hjalmar. "Do you, Hjalmar?" asked Kristoffer. "Then I shall tell... | |
| Joanna Gondris - Editing - 1998 - 428 pages
...identify Thomas Heywood as a resource for contemporary English anecdotes relevant to Hamlet's musing: I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. (2.2.584-88) Nearly two decades earlier, however, Zachary Grey had already published his observation... | |
| Tom Stoppard - Drama - 1998 - 226 pages
...POLONIUS'Î chat.) POLONIUS: The actors are come hither, my lord. (Exits) HAMLET: We'll hear a play tomorrow. I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. I'll have these players play something Like the murder of my father... | |
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