| Sidney Homan - Drama - 1988 - 248 pages
...you that can speak," to which Hamlet retorts, "Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge. / You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you." Action is clearly demanded here: Gertrude, moving away from Hamlet, either to recall Polonius or to... | |
| Steven Berkoff - Drama - 1990 - 228 pages
...crashed, the expert dissimulation by the able and tough Linda Marlowe had me fooled, you shall not budge, You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. The violence of the fall, which slid her halfway across the stage, combines with my attitude to make... | |
| Louise Fothergill-Payne - Drama - 1991 - 348 pages
...latter, he sets out to complete the work of cognition: Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge, You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of yoa (3.4.19-21) Persons like the King and Hamlet's mother who avoid looking into the mirror have to... | |
| Evangeline Machlin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 268 pages
...Upon a rapier's point. /Stay, Tybalt, stay!/ Romeo, 1 come! this do I drink to thee. (IV, iii) HAMLET: You go not 'till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you./ QUEEN: What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?/ Help, ho!/ POLONIUS (behind): What ho! help, help,... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...— or does — force her down on to a chair or bed or the floor (as in Japan): you shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. The inmost part — the conscience he himself wrestles with? As Honigmann observes, Hamlet moves beyond... | |
| Murray Cox - Performing Arts - 1992 - 312 pages
...she may see 'the inmost part' of herself: HAMLET: Come, come and sit you down, you shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. QUEEN: What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? (ffl.4.17) Whether or not a particular production... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...not so, you are my mother. 3, 3 HAMLET 3,4 HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. 20 QUEEN What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho! POLONIUS [behind the arras:] What,... | |
| Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...the King to bring out a hidden truth. Hamlet indeed uses the same mirror image later with his mother: "You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you" (III, 4, 18-19). In the Renaissance, the glass was a symbol that reached behind the visible, and so... | |
| Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 244 pages
...closet scene. The purpose of his playing there is to present Gertrude with her own image as scorn: "You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you" (3.4.18-19). Gertrude signals her reception of Hamlet's message: "Thou rurn'st my eyes into my very... | |
| Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...speak. (9-18) She rises but is flung back in her chair again and so menaced by his: You shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you (19-21) that she cries aloud for help. Polonius echoes her cry. Instantly Hamlet draws his sword and... | |
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