| Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...more extreme than that of the eminently sane Isabella or that of the praying Claudius who knew that In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. Lest the audience should be tempted to dismiss what Lear says as mere raving, Shakespeare provides... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 214 pages
...murder — 55 My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself 6o Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true... | |
| Jonathan D. Culler - 2002 - 376 pages
...exploratory process rather than in any semantic conclusion. Quoting lines from Hamlet, III iii, buttis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the Action lies In his true Nature, and we ourselves compelled Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence, he remarks that in 'the... | |
| Brian Vickers - 2002 - 568 pages
...so ahove; There, is no shuffling, there the Action lyes In his true Nature and we ourselves compelPd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. (//am., 3.3.60-4) Empson devoted nearly a page to a series of ingenious but unsatisfying explanations... | |
| K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. 55 May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: 60 There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even... | |
| Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...Isabella or that of the praying Claudius who knew that In the corrupted currents of this world Offences gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. 5 DGJames, The Life of Reason (1949), p. 149. 6 Cf. GM Young, Shakespeare and the Tenners (1948). 7... | |
| J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 pages
...possessed by us. Ultimately it refuses enslavement. As even the false Claudius recognizes in Hamlet, "in the corrupted currents of this world offence's gilded hand may shove by justice. . . . But 'tis not so above.' In heaven, he says, there is no 'shuffling' of truth (Hamlet III 3 58-61).... | |
| 彭鏡禧 - 2004 - 504 pages
...the murder@ My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...faults To give in evidence. What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? 1O 15 2O 25 30 Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? 0... | |
| Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 230 pages
...trying for a second, demonstrating that such a person will not voluntarily submit to accountability: In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And often 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys the law. There is no law in Denmark to apprehend Claudius.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...did the murder; My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen; May one be pardoned and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above, 60 There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled Even... | |
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