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" Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? "
The Port Folio - Page 262
1809
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 31

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...pretence is brought in to buttress reality, to shore it up - and take its place? For in the end: What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? The two most remarkable examples in Shakespeare of a person being taken in by a fiction are associated...
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The Kendall/Hunt Anthology: Literature to Write About

K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...[wann'd], 580 Tears, in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting 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 he the motive and the cue for passion...
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Eigennamen im deutschen Wortschatz: ein Lexikon

Rudolf Köster - Foreign Language Study - 2003 - 224 pages
...ihn sein): In Shakespeares »Hamlet«, im Monolog Hamlets am Ende des 2. Aktes, sagt dieser: »What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?« = »Was ist ihm (dem Schauspieler, der Hekubas tragisches Schicksal vorträgt) Hekuba, und was ist...
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Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness

David Lee Miller - English literature - 2003 - 268 pages
...this wrenching appeal to equally mysterious questions about the power of dramatic empathy: "What's Hecuba to him, or he to [Hecuba], / That he should weep for her?" (2.2.558-59). The emotional force of this scenario carries through the pathetic death scenes of Dickens's...
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Introduction to Dramatherapy: Person and Threshold

Salvo Pitruzzella - Drama - 2004 - 212 pages
...his visage wanned, Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing....him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? (Shakespeare, Hamlet) Fictions In the last period of his life, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovskij...
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Introduction to Dramatherapy: Person and Threshold

Salvo Pitruzzella - Medical - 2004 - 216 pages
...his visage wanned. Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing....him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? (Shakespeare, Hamlet) Fictions In the last period of his life, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovskij...
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The Literary Wittgenstein

John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 376 pages
...visage wanned, Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing....him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? (3.1.552-62) Hamlet confronts here the negation of his earlier disavowal of mere "forms." Whereas he...
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Shakespeare: Hamlet

Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...lines which in their balance and pointed quality have the perfection of a classical epigram: What's Hecuba to him. or he to Hecuba. That he should weep for her? (II.ii.5 59-60) As Hamlet turns to apply the lesson of the actor to his own case. his speech becomes...
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Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...to realize this himself when he reacts to the First Player's involuntary emotional display: "What's Hecuba to him, or he to [Hecuba], / That he should weep for her?" (2.2.559-60). But students of the early modern affects should note that Shakespeare's version of the...
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Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

Heinrich F. Plett - Art - 2004 - 600 pages
...visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! (II.ii.545 - 552) 7 Cf. Aristotle, Poetics 1455 a 30 — 32. Marvin T. Herrick, The Fusion of Horatian...
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