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" Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! "
The Life of Charles Sumner: The Scholar in Politics - Page 238
by Archibald Henry Grimké - 1892 - 415 pages
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Marcus is Walking

Joan Ackermann - Drama - 1999 - 60 pages
...son of a dear father murdered Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell Must like a whore unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! (Dmitry comes at him, rolling up his sleeves.) DMITRY. Fuckshit. I gonna fuckshit you. (Dmitry makes...
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Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes

R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't, foh! (2.2.583-88) There is no such moment of withdrawal in the later soliloquy. Hamlet...
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Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...of a dear father murder'd,26 Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my 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, Have by the...
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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul

Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...son of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! (2.2.578-83) Hamlet compares himself to an impoverished whore who can only curse her unfortunate condition....
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The Anatomy of Swearing

Ashley Montagu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 388 pages
...of a dear father murder'd Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! II, ii Finally, there is Ophelia's soliloquy. OPHELIA: Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end...
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The Klingon Hamlet

Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my 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, Have...
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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

David Schalkwyk - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...vengeance! Why, what an ass am I? Ay, sure, this is most brave, That I Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! (2.2.583-90) This is Hamlet finally 'unpacking] [his] heart' under the pressure of a properly inward...
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The Imperial Theme

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! (n. ii. 619) But he catches an element of the player's force, and turns it at last to action. With...
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Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management

John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - Business & Economics - 2002 - 321 pages
...of a dear father murder 'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't! Foh! HAMLET (2.2, 584-89) And after all the hand-wringing and breast-beating, he still...
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Open Book/Livre Ouvert

Geoffrey Bennington - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 354 pages
...of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! liamletfalls into words, and this downward vector returns in Act III, when Ophelia, in the 'get thee...
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