 ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.  Tragedies. Poems - Page 124by William Shakespeare - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Stuart E. Omans, Maurice J. O'Sullivan - Drama - 2003 - 270 pages
...doesn't quite work, an exciting imperfection can often be far more watchable than a boring masterpiece! Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. (Hamlet III. ii. 16-1 9) Why Do You Dress Me in Borrowed Robes? Creating Renaissance Costume J. Ann... | |
 | Caroline de Westenholz - Actors - 2003 - 390 pages
...the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.'... | |
 | Radhouan Ben Amara - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 148 pages
...diversite et naturel sont les allies de 1'humanite." (Delannoi 56) Hamlet may give the answer to this: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own... | |
 | Stephen Unwin - Drama - 2004 - 256 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. FIRST PLAYER I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own... | |
 | Michael Cody - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 220 pages
...(3). 10. The metaphor of the mirror is taken from act 3, scene 2, of William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - Art - 2004 - 600 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant, it outHerods Herod. Pray you avoid it. 1st Player. I warrant your honour. Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as... | |
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