 | Pasquale Memmolo - 1995 - 364 pages
...inszenierten Spiels selbst. Das Spiel mit dem Zweifel ist ihm verdeckender Schutz und Erkenntnisinstrument: "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... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...him to the quick If he but blench, I know my course. The haunted look returns. HAMLET (continuing) 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 As he is very potent... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - 1998 - 370 pages
...mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; 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 To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy. As he is very potent... | |
 | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - 1999 - 320 pages
...scrupulous in his demand for proof that he hesitates to act on the evidence of the ghost itself: The spirit 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... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...convinced by it; and subsequently he tells Horatio that 'It is an honest ghost'. But his suspicions return: 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, As he is very potent... | |
 | Gary Banham, Charlie Blake - 2000 - 242 pages
...Specters of Marx: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, where at the close of Act 2, scene 2, Hamlet himself states: 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... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; 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 To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very... | |
 | Keavin Hayden - 2002 - 128 pages
...devil is most devilish when he is disguised and undetected. Even William Shakespeare acknowledged: "Me spirit that I have seen may be the devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" (Hamlet, Act II scene 2). Satan's strategy is quite simple. If those who... | |
 | Michael Kessler, Christian Sheppard - 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... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2004 - 196 pages
...parallels the circumstances of the murder as recounted by his father's ghost. He still worries that 'The spirit that I have seen / May be the devil: and the devil hath power / To assume a pleasing shape." Indeed, the devil may have exploited Hamlet's own emotions, "my weakness... | |
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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 grounds More relative... 
