 Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free,...  The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight - Page 43by William Shakespeare - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 2004 - 600 pages
...performance would have looked like if it had been based not on an imaginary picture but on sheer reality: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (II.ii.554- 560) What Hamlet describes here is known in rhetorical theory as fustian or bombast.16... | |
 | Arthur Robson - 2004 - 372 pages
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 | Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 pages
...his fantasies Hamlet identifies with the player and sees himself able to move his audience deeply: He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.556-60) Even Hamlet's self-reproach for being unpregnant of his cause is self-dramatized into... | |
 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 372 pages
...the cue for passion/ That I have?" (563-4). And his answer is as predictable as it is unsatisfartory: He would drown the stage with tears. And cleave the...free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very farulty of eyes and ears. (564-8) H.ul the player the properly interior emotions that are intrinsically... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit; and all for nothing! 540 For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep...very faculties of eyes and ears; yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak 550 Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no,... | |
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 | Bridget Escolme - 2005 - 216 pages
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 | Karen Newman - 2005 - 176 pages
...to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion 555 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears,...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. 560 Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can... | |
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