Describing the sense of confession in Hamlet

Matthew J. Smith

pp. 165-183

in: Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar, Bryan Reynolds (eds), The return of theory in early modern English studies II, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

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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Plato

De Montaigne Michel