..."brains" (2.2.584) and making his first general observation in the speech, he remembers that he has heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have,...no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (2.2.585-90) Hamlet therefore decides to have the players play something like the murder of his father...

...with words. And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't! foh! - About, my brain! l have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; With most miraculous organ. 1'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before...

...Death" deftly fulfills the dream of academic humanism. Through it the players prove Hamlet's theory that . . . guilty creatures sitting at a play Have...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. (2.2.589-92) But while "The Murder of Gonzago" in Hamlet prompts the guilty King Claudius to plot a...

...include the poet and his audience, for instance, in Hamlet's model of representation and accountability? 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...

...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,...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim 'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous...

...demonstrates the process Hamlet intends to apply to Claudius. The principle has folkloric support: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (II.2.528-31) Yet "guilty" or not, Hamlet himself has also been "sitting...

...can 'make mad the guilty and appal the free' (2.2.558) does not lack confidence, and his assurance I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (2.2.584-90) - reflects a playwright's self-interest in connecting the performance of The Mousetrap...

...can 'make mad the guilty and appal the free' (2.2.5581 does not lack confidence, and his assuranceI have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (2.2.584-901 - reflects a playwright's self-interest in connecting the performance of The Mousetrap...

...or censorship issues. Why do some performances evoke actual riots? * Think about what Hamlet says: "I have heard/ that guilty creatures sitting at a.../Been struck so to the soul that presently /They have confessed their malefactions." What does this mean? Why would this be so? * Find out about some interesting...

...Prince uses the staging of 'The Murder of Gonzago' by visiting players to determine his uncle's guilt: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions; (2.2.566-9) Here, as in Hamlet, we have ghosts and guilt. But the expectations...