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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... "
A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's ... - Page 121
by William Richardson - 1774 - 224 pages
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Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

Heinrich F. Plett - Art - 2004 - 600 pages
...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 passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,...
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Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

Bridget Escolme - Acting - 2005 - 212 pages
...to the death of a fictional queen, Hamlet asks, 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...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...conceit; and all for nothing! 540 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,...
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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical ...

Karen Newman - Comedy - 2005 - 176 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 555 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid...
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Style: Essays on Renaissance and Restoration Literature and Culture in ...

Harriett Hawkins - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...another shift he finally comes to the reason for his self-reproach, which is stated as another question: "What would he do/ Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have?" This leads into a description of how the Player would act in that situation,...
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Shakespeare

George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, . . ." Hamlet contrasts this man with himself: What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears .... Hamlet goes on to reproach himself for...
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Shakespeare, Memory and Performance

Peter Holland, Director Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 326 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? (2.2.553-64) Here, as elsewhere when he himself is cast as a spectator of grief,...
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Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius ...

E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...provoke a "dream of passion" for "nothing": "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?" (2.2.559-62). Hamlet's complaint recalls the Augustinian criticism so popular...
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Cue for Passion

Albert D'Annibale - Interpersonal relations - 2007 - 215 pages
...appreciated; but most of all my wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear 'Banlet' Contents Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 199...
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Cue for Passion

Albert D'Annibale - Interpersonal relations - 2007 - 215 pages
...appreciated; but most of all my wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear 'Hamlet' Contents Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 191...
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