 | Hilaire Kallendorf - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
