 | Hilaire Kallendorf - 2003 - 366 Seiten
...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 - 2003 - 148 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2004 - 460 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - 2010 - 291 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas M. Disch - 2005 - 282 Seiten
...was only a product of my own overheated imagination. Or then again, it may be, as Hamlet surmised: The spirit that I have seen May be a devil: and the...very potent with such spirits Abuses me to damn me. I had just laid aside the volume of Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica with which I had been beguiling the... | |
 | Arnaldus (de Villanova) - 2005 - 271 Seiten
...INTRODUCTORI I. EL DE REPROBACIONE NIGROMANTICE FI CCI ON IS The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2, 2 L'esperit que vaig veure podia ser un dimoni, i el dimoni be pot... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - 2005 - 216 Seiten
...quick: if he but blench, I know my course. And he goes on to say: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2005 - 396 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
