 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...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...peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made, Am... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...and his whole function suiting 540 With forms to his conceit; and all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep...indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, 550 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing;... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall Childhood 64 The glory and the freshness of a dream. (1. 5) 65 The things which I tor a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. (II, ii) 32 The play's... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...suiting With forms 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...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.544-60) If Hecuba were not a representational fiction, one would conclude from this passage that... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...do in the audience members that Hamlet imagines for the Player, had he Hamlet's "cue for passion." He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.556-60) Presenting the visible and audible in partnership, the Player's Speech functions as a... | |
 | Henry Sussman - Philosophy - 1997 - 338 pages
...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...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (II.ii.533-50) Yet the very predicament in which Hamlet finds himself embedded offers its own means... | |
 | Richard Halpern - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty, and .appall the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed...John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing. (2.2.550-69) Hamlet admires the player for making his body into a perfectly responsive mechanism which... | |
 | Vennelaṇṭi Prakāśam - Culture - 1999 - 186 pages
...broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit; and all for nothing! For Hecuba! That I have? he would drown the stage with tears And...very faculties of eyes and ears; yet I, A dull and miiddv-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...seems to him such a joke that he can hardly speak for guffaws' (Sunday Telegraph, 27 October 1963). Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the...rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, 520 And can say nothing - no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
