 | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt - Dramatists, English - 2004 - 460 pages
...confined to fast in fires Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house...unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. (1.5.9-16) Shakespeare had to be careful: plays were censored, and it would not have been permissible... | |
 | James Michael Thomas - Performing Arts - 2005 - 379 pages
...would feel if he knew what his father has suffered. GHOST But that I am forbid To tell the secrets my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest...Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And... | |
 | Anthony King - Sociology - 2004 - 290 pages
...paralyses him by confirming the existence of God and a hellish afterlife to him. As his father tells him: 'To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up they soul, freeze the young blood' (Shakespeare 1982: 216). In place of effective action in the real... | |
 | Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - English fiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...de la sensibilité bourgeoise, et avec une émouvante médiocrité, l'inspiration shakespearienne1. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood. (Ham. 1.5. 15-16) L'émergence du roman gothique coïncide également avec un regain d'intérêt pour... | |
 | Geoffrey Bennington - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 354 pages
...From the early ghost-scene, in which the Ghost, released from earlier silence by Hamlet's presence, ...could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, and whose departure provokes in Hamlet an immediate act of erasure, of writing, and of swearing: Remember... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2005 - 900 pages
...confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away: but that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And... | |
 | David Wills - Philosophy - 2005 - 248 pages
...imparts concerning his murder is overlaid, on the one hand, with an interdiction regarding speaking ("But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house I could a tale unfold . . ." [1.5.13-15]), and on the other hand, with anxiety about the time permitted him to talk and about... | |
 | Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels - LITERARY CRITICISM - 2005 - 312 pages
...confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house I could a tale unfold [...] (1.5.9-15) The soul of the father does not have its abode in purgatory where others may do him... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...awhile, and let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our stay. [Hamlet I i 30] / could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start jrom their spheres, Thy knotted locks to part, And each particular... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Castles - 2005 - 718 pages
...St. Aubert was for a time too devoid of comfort himself to bestow any on his daughter. CHAPTER II / could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. SHAKESPEARE. MADAME St. Aubert was interred in the neighbouring village church: her husband and daughter... | |
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But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood... 
