...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 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...

...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...hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list! If...

...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...

...to tell Hamlet would, in Gulliver's words, make his flesh creep with a horror he could not express: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.39 Similarly relevant, also, is the fact that Gulliver,...

..."secrets" (1.5.14). He describes not the secrets, therefore, but the effect they would have if disclosed: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...hair to stand an end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (1.5.15-20) As the sight of the Medusa turned spectators to stone, the mere mention of...

...she whispered with great intensity: "... But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The officer nodded. He had no idea what it meant or...

...she whispered with great intensity: "... But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The officer nodded. He had no idea what it meant or...