 | John Draper, John William Draper - Drama - 1966 - 276 pages
...he cries out for heavenly aid as if it were a devil, and addresses it in an alternative apostrophe: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! — Be thou...from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. . . . If Hamlet were certain that this... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...partially filial. The possibility that the apparition is diabolical informs his first words to the ghost. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. (I.iv.39-45) by the appearance of the ghost in the... | |
 | Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 316 pages
...clapped-to with violence by an invisible hand. Horace Walpole, The Castle ofOtranto (1764), 23-24 Hamlet Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O answer me. Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell... | |
 | Wendy Wren - English language - 2000 - 163 pages
...party which Claudius is having in the castle. Enter GHOST HORATIO: Look, my lord, it comes. HAMLET: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O answer me. Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...honour 'd in the breach than the observance. + Enter GHOST Horatio Look, my lord, it comes. Hamlet Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O, O answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance, but... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...batlh baSna', naDHa'ghachvaD butlh mlghqu' — 'eH, joH! chol! ACT I, SCENE IV [Enter Ghost] Hamlet Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...with a preternatural will to know and to be known, at once anarchic and reverent: Angels and minsters of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O answer me. (1.4.39-45) But how can Hamlet welcome... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...its close resemblance to his father that invites questioning — outweighs his otherworldly concerns: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring...such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. (1.4.40-44) Hamlet's speech to the Ghost contains his most insistent questioning. The counterpart of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - History - 2002 - 1258 pages
...Dost thou bring with thee airs from Heaven?: Hamlet, speaking to the ghost of his father, declares: "Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, / Bring...such a questionable shape /That I will speak to thee" (1.4.40-44). See also the "heavenly airs" heard by the narrator in Addison's "Vision of Mirzah," which... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...piteous beauty and the yearning of love: it is also a speech of fear. Again, there is a 'grace' contrast: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape True, the spirit is, in a sense, Hamlet's father : I'll call thee... | |
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! — Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee:... 
