...possession, one that renders him acutely vulnerable to demonic forces: "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."1 19 Hamlet marks, if not the first, then the most enduring representation of a depressed intellectual...

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...hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea. and perhaps Out of my weakliest- and my melancholy. . . . Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. He does catch the conscience of the king. Horatio is his witness, yet there is still no way to move...

...quick: if he but blench, I know my course. And he goes on to say: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. He has at last been stung to action. But the action he proposes is not the killing of Claudius: it...

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...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 weakness...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king, [he goes [a day passes] ACT 3 SCENE I The lobby of the audience chamber, the walls hung with anas;...

...was only a product of my own overheated imagination. Or then again, it may be, as Hamlet surmised: The spirit that I have seen May be a devil: and the...very potent with such spirits Abuses me to damn me. I had just laid aside the volume of Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica with which I had been beguiling...

...I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power 595 T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing 600 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.' (II, ii, 543-601) The soliloquy may be divided...

...INTRODUCTORI I. EL DE REPROBACIONE NIGROMANTICE FI CCI ON IS The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2, 2 L'esperit que vaig veure podia ser un dimoni, i el dimoni be pot...

...a danger to his soul: 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. (II.ii.594-9) It is precisely because he is aware of the danger of damnation that he arranges to catch...