In his true nature and we ourselves compell’d,Įven to the teeth and forehead of our faults, There is no shuffling, there the action lies Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,Īnd oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself May one be pardon’d and retain the offence? My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. Of those effects for which I did the murder, That cannot be since I am still possess’d But, O, what form of prayerĬan serve my turn? ‘Forgive me my foul murder’? Or pardon’d being down? Then I’ll look up To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercyĪnd what’s in prayer but this two-fold force, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, I stand in pause where I shall first begin,Īnd both neglect. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent Īnd, like a man to double business bound, O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven ‘O, My Offence Is Rank It Smells To Heaven’, Spoken by Claudius, Act 3 Scene 3 #Oh my days meaning plusRead Shakespeare’s ‘O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven’ soliloquy from Hamlet below with modern English translation and analysis, plus a video performance. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
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