conscience-fettered

Updated: January 10, 2026

But it is not the passionate, but thoughtful Hamlet, shrinking from blood, with his resolution sicklied o'er with the pale cast of conscientious thought; it is not the humane, conscience-fettered Hamlet, but the man who aspires to make his single humours the law of the universal world, in whom the poet will show now this want of state and sovereignty.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded