 Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music,...  The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight - Page 60by William Shakespeare - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...stops. Guildenstern But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
..."[i]t is as easy as lying," Hamlet says (3.2.348); yet he presumes to know how to play upon Hamlet: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...long-suspected complicity, he does so as part of a thoroughgoing sequence of musical references in his play: Why, look you now how unworthy a thing you make of...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass . . . Why, do you think that I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron, Rebecca Barnes - 2001 - 116 pages
...God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. (Act III, Sc. I, lines 144-5) Hamlet: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. (Act III, Sc. ii, lines 371 -4) Claudius: 0, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven. It hath the primal... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...metaphor of the musical instrument for his innermost soul. Hamlet says to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...voice in this little organ yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 216 pages
...Guildenstern. But these cannot I commend to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ' Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 pages
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern deserve Hamlet's contempt for the inefficacy of their prying, and he tells them, "You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak, 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" If Hamlet's "mystery" is more... | |
 | Thomas Heywood, Sonia Massai - 2003 - 168 pages
...read alongside Tabor's reference to his 'pipe' at 2.2.27, echoes Shakespeare's Hamlet, 3.2.355-61: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?' 135 hare prostitute, from its... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 pages
...courtly playing upon him as a phallic pipe or recorder of which he accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 2002 - 320 pages
...Francis Barker, seems to answer generations of critics as well as it does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,... | |
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