...night, 10 And for the day confin'd to fast in fires. Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To...prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 15 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood. Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their...

...night; And for the day confin'd to fast in Fires, Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature Are burnt and purg'd away: But that I am forbid To...secrets of my Prison-House; I could a Tale unfold . . . (I,v).'° Every revenant seems here to come from and return to the earth, to come from it as...

...the day confined to fast in fires Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of...unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. (1.5.9-16) Shakespeare had to be careful: plays were censored, and it would not have been permissible...

...paralyses him by confirming the existence of God and a hellish afterlife to him. As his father tells him: 'To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up they soul, freeze the young blood' (Shakespeare 1982: 216). In place of effective action in the real...

...de la sensibilité bourgeoise, et avec une émouvante médiocrité, l'inspiration shakespearienne1. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood. (Ham. 1.5. 15-16) L'émergence du roman gothique coïncide également avec un regain d'intérêt pour...

...From the early ghost-scene, in which the Ghost, released from earlier silence by Hamlet's presence, ...could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, and whose departure provokes in Hamlet an immediate act of erasure, of writing, and of swearing: Remember...

...day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away: but that I am forbid To tell the secrets of...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh...

...awhile, and let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our stay. [Hamlet I i 30] / could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start jrom their spheres, Thy knotted locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills...

...day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house I could a tale unfold [...] (1.5.9-15) The soul of the father does not have its abode in purgatory where others may do him...

...imparts concerning his murder is overlaid, on the one hand, with an interdiction regarding speaking ("But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house I could a tale unfold . . ." [1.5.13-15]), and on the other hand, with anxiety about the time permitted him to talk and about...