...can say nothing ; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A vile defeat was made Humph ! I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting...Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaimed their malefactiona ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous...

...he snatches at a device for relief. And thus he goes on : — Fye upon't ! fob ! About my brains ! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murther, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous...

...Shakespeare makes Hamlet say, when he determines to test his uncle's crime by the "murder of Gonzago," " I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions." He alludes to a well-known story, recent in the memory of the first spectators of the tragedy, and...

...words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! Fyo upon 't ! fob ! — About, my brains ! :}: ve malcfactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.(8) I'll...

...husband's murder." l In Hamlet, Act ii, Sc. 2, Shakespeare alludes to a similar incident, perhaps the same. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play...no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Heywood, in his 'Apology for actors', relates the same story, and adds that it had occurred "at Lin,...

...murder."' ' In Hamlet, Act ii, Sc. 2, Shakespeare alludes to a similar incident, perhaps the same. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play...no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Heywood, in his 'Apology for actors', relates the same story, and adds that it had occurred "at Lin,...

...spectators, he believes, in fact, that plays can elicit self-recognition, confession, even repentance: 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) Although we should not necessarily assume that the character...

...words, 570 And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't; foh! About, my brains. Hum ... 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...

...shared economies of moral discourse. —I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play t lave, by the very cunning of the scene. Been struck so to...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle. (2.2.584) In so doing I lamlet will tent to the quick not only his uncle but also his father's ghost,...

...oblique psychic access. Thus one may by 'indirections find directions out' and thereby gain insight. 'I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions.' (Hamlet II.2.584) Shakespeare's use of the play as metaphor, of the mask and disguise, of 'seeming'...