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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. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 190
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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And Flights of Angels

Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...do blench, I know my course. 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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing (HORATIO gestures for entrances. Enter KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ,...
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Some Necessary Questions of the Play: A Stage-centered Analysis of ...

Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...Hamlet's impulse to revenge. 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. (II.ii.598-603) Whereas Hamlet's "conscience" explores the hypothetical, the "conscience of the King"...
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The Absent Shakespeare

Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...truth: he forgets his own question in the contrivance of the trap. . . . 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. . . . (FF.2.2: 1639-43) Moving quickly to his revenge after the mousetrap springs, Hamlet finds Claudius...
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Strategen der Subjektivität: Intriganten in Dramen der Neuzeit

Pasquale Memmolo - European drama - 1995 - 364 pages
...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...me. I'll have grounds // More relative than this; the play's the thing // Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." (n,l). des vom Affekt erfaßten...
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Hamlet and Narcissus

John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...him to a prudential caution: 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...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (II.ii.610-15) As I have argued in the text, however, if we simply follow the trajectory of the scene...
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Hamlet

Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He sinks behind the theatre so that his face is level with the stage. Yes! That's it. HAMLET (continuing)...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen 555 May be a devil, and the devil hath power T assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my...such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds H0 More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Exit....
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Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors

Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (Exit.) KIMG HEMRY IV— PART I...
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The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews

James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - Performing Arts - 1999 - 320 pages
...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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (H.ii) Yet he will trust the dubious...
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Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity

Gary Banham, Charlie Blake - Philosophy - 2000 - 242 pages
...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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play s the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Here we see the devil himself suspected...
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