| Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...acting. In keeping with his neoclassical taste, Hamlet begins by stressing the art of speaking: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. (3.2.1-4) Hamlet wants the speeches,... | |
| Klingon Language Institute - 2001 - 236 pages
...'e' wltuch. Act III, Scene II SCENE II A hall in the castle. [Enter HAMLET and Players] Hamlet Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many ofyour players do, I had as lief the town -crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1995 - 340 pages
...Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. Exevnt 1 1 1. 2 Enter Hamlet and the Players HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...mouth it as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus. But use all eently.... | |
| Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 192 pages
...How are music and meaning, sound and sense, conversation and versification to be reconciled? "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines." If the Prince composed "Thoughts... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. Hamlet — Hamlet II. ii Speak the speech I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with... | |
| Charles Lamb - 2002 - 200 pages
...opposing end them. (Ill, i, 55-59) ($.=.*. *-*. 55-59 It) Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as life the town-crier spoke my lines.(...) for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing,... | |
| Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...passion. It is Hamlet's first instruction to the players. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth...lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as... | |
| Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 196 pages
...books," for he teaches the visiting players the very opposite of the artificial and derived: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you...trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much... | |
| Stephen Unwin - 2004 - 256 pages
...to the players' (3.2) gives us a useful insight into the Elizabethan theatre at work: HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with... | |
| 2004 - 428 pages
...them. (Ill, i, 55-59) Hamlet ($=.# • $-# ' 55-59 ft) Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as life the town-crier spoke my lines. (...) for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing,... | |
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