| Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - 1999 - 268 pages
...now compare the passage in which Hamlet gives the following advice to the players: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it^as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...Laurence Olivier, 1982, Confessions of an Actor, p. 165 60:10 [Hamlet, to the players] Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you - trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. William Shakespeare, 1600-1601,... | |
| Natalie Rogers - 2000 - 374 pages
...phase. They'll get over it. Planning Makes Perfect ' Twos the Night Before Showtime Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. — Hamlet, William Shakespeare Any... | |
| Philip Taylor - 2000 - 164 pages
...of The Murder of Gonzago' capture the skills the actors must bring to their parts: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with... | |
| Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 pages
...us look at the locus classicus in almost its entirety. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, 1 had as live the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus,... | |
| Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...corners of modern thought, the Prince exhibits other interests with the players. 'Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you — trippingly on the tongue', he says among two or three of the well-tried actors. 'Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand,... | |
| Adam Long, Daniel Singer - 2000 - 82 pages
...out from behind his back to reveal sock-puppet Players on his hands.} J/HAMLET: "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, and hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.... | |
| Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...keeping with his neoclassical taste, Hamlet begins by stressing the art of speaking: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. (3.2.1-4) Hamlet wants the speeches,... | |
| Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 pages
...wardrobe, mental readiness. Chapter 4 Speak the Speech, Trippingly: Tune Up That Voice Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines. Hamlet (to the Players), Hamlet. 3,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...great ones must not unwatch'd go. Exeunt Enter HAMLET and two or three of the PLAYERS Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much... | |
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