...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...

...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,...

...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...

...After the reference to Hecuba the actor needs a rising crescendo, and Shakespeare provides it for him: What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for...with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty and appal the tree, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Hamlet's 'kin' and...

...remembrance. However, Hamlet's answer to his second question is extravagant (but correct) remembrance: He would drown the stage with tears. And cleave the...free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears.145 This most extravagant, but according to Hamlet appropriate, display he...