Describing the sense of confession in Hamlet

Smith Matthew J.

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(2014) The return of theory in early modern English studies II, Dordrecht, Springer.

Describing the sense of confession in Hamlet

Matthew J. Smith

pp. 165-183

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice; and I am afraid that Plato, ... if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, and he did so no doubt, would have heard some jarring sound of human mix- ture, but faint and only perceptible to himself. Man is wholly and throughout but patch and motley. Michel de Montaigne¹

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Smith, M. J. (2014)., Describing the sense of confession in Hamlet, in P. Cefalu, G. Kuchar & B. Reynolds (eds.), The return of theory in early modern English studies II, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 165-183.

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