...her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the state with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid...very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no, not...

...continues, using a theatrical metaphor, had he "the motive and the cue for passion" that Hamlet has? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.555-60) The Player would act, but only in the theatrical sense. He would act on the stage and...

...funzione Che s'adattava con le forme alla sua idea? For Hecubal What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her ? What would he do Had...tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, $6o Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties...

...passion' to the Player and imagining the result, the act is translated into a theatrical declamation: He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. («,", 555-9-) It is natural for him to translate intention into language — into verbal rather than...

...social dialogue. In comparing himself to one of the professional actors, Hamlet laments: What would he Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?...indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I. ..can say nothing... (II. ii. 586-595) Although Hamlet often denies or disguises his longing to speak...

...social dialogue. In comparing himself to one of the professional actors, Hamlet laments: What would he Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?...amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I...can say nothing... (II, ii, 586-595) Although Hamlet often denies or disguises his longing to speak...

...With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 585 That he should weep for her? What would he do, had...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, 590 Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears. Yet...

...fiction, in a dream of Passion, Can force his soul so to his whole conceit, That he can drown the very stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. He can call spirits from the vasty deep, Make church-yards yawn, and shew the sheeted ghosts Revisiting...

...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...

...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...