...GUILDENSTERN.) HAMLET. Ay, so, God bye to you. HORATIO (as the silent HAMLET touches his father's throne). 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...

...he orders his brains about. But now, after a prelimi' nary "Hum," the crucial thought strikes him: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (II.ii.600-604) Strangely, though, as if he has forgotten that he has...

...The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle (Princeton, 1988). STEPHEN ORGEL HE OPENING is irresistible: I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently p . . y They have proclaimed their malefactions . . . I'll have these players Q p Play something like...

...heart 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 proclaimed their malefactions; He drags himself into action and looks again at the model theatre. Ideas,...

...Hamlet obliquely address late Tudor playgoers with similar intent when Hamlet schemed against his uncle? I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions (2.2.575-78) Probably not. Hamlet is not camouflaged Calvinism. No amount...

...touch Claudius; it will act like a truth drug giving Hamlet the evidence he needs. And indeed it does. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (ibid.: 661) Hamlet's image of the power of the play is shocking. It...

...fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't! foh! About, my brains. Hum — I have heard w That guilty creatures sitting at a play, Have by the...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 550 With most miraculous...

...murders of their husbands — making real Hamlet's lines about the drama's power of verisimilitude: I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. Rhetoric simply offered Heywood another weapon of argument; rhetoric...

...peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, (859) schilt, sinnt auf Abhilfe und kommt darauf, That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions (860). Durch das play within the play vergewissert sich Hamlet der Identität...

...identify Thomas Heywood as a resource for contemporary English anecdotes relevant to Hamlet's musing: I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. (2.2.584-88) Nearly two decades earlier, however, Zachary Grey had already published his observation...