 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 196 pages
...and so he urges the troupe to be most natural, most exacting in their performance. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
 | Neil Rhodes - 2004 - 260 pages
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 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 376 pages
...kind that he warns against in his advice to the players when he enjoins them to "suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature" (3.2.17-19): Bloody; bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O, vengeance!... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 252 pages
...playing, 'as if the personator were the thing personated' (Heywood, Apology, p. 250). 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature', says Hamlet (3.2.15-16), in an informal, relaxed speech which invites this kind of delivery. The supreme... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant, it out-herods Herod, pray you avoid it. i PLAYER I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end 20 both at the first, and now, was and... | |
 | James Zager, William Shakespeare - 2005 - 70 pages
...the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise, Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance: That you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature... 
