 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - Drama - 1993 - 290 pages
...with the figure of Hecuba and then goes on to imagine the dramatic effectiveness of his own situation: 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,... | |
 | Patrick Miles - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 278 pages
...All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players . . . (As You Like It, II. 7.139^) What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears . . . (Hamlet, II.a.544ff.) Life's but a walking... | |
 | Eugenio María de Hostos - Poetry - 1994 - 552 pages
...conceit,... and all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's 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... make mad the guilty... Yet I, A dull and... | |
 | Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 244 pages
...Hecuba occasions acute anguish as much as relief: What's Hecuba to him, or he to her. That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and cue for passion That I have? (553-56) Unlike Lucrece's, Hamlet's identification with Hecuba is problematic... | |
 | Leslie C. Dunn, Nancy A. Jones - Music - 1994 - 278 pages
...emotions. After hearing the Player King describe the grief of Hecuba for her slain husband, Hamlet wonders, "What would he do / Had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have?" (2.2.554-55). Yet, when he does express that passion, he feels effeminized: This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...his conceit? And all for nothing, For Hecuba! What's 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,... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, 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,... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...the apartment now, pacing. HAMLET (continuing) What's 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 opens the doors of a beautiful model theatre. HAMLET (continuing) He would... | |
 | Marina Jenkyns - Medical - 1996 - 260 pages
...actor's ability to feel emotion for things and people so far removed from himself causes Hamlet to say, What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (Hamlet Act II, Scene 2: 570) Then action follows - the action of deciding to... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...Hamlet draws our attention to the discrepancy between the passion and the rhetoric by contemplating, 'What would he do, / Had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?' (554—6) and in doing so, closes up the gap between the rhetoric and the emotion,... | |
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What's 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... 
