 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
 | Valeria Wagner - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...the "time" that is "out of ^Hamlet is here taking the place of the player in H.ii, of whom he says: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for...tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. <n.ii. 557-63) He is also... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...abuse - a loud, low woman 595 About: set about your task Had he the motive and the cue for passion 565 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears,...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. 570 Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can... | |
 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...of this speech, the speaker's awareness of play and the reference to the (First) Player looms large. What would he do Had he the motive and [the cue] for...tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech (2.2.560-563) As the traveling player's capacity for rousing, piercing speech and action is imaginatively... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weepe for her? What would he doe, 2.2 Hamlet Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?...free, Confound the ignorant and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...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... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...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... | |
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