 | David Paul Brown - Lawyers - 1856 - 604 pages
...to Hecuba, That he should weep for her ? What would he do, Had he the motive, or the cue for passion That I have ? He would drown the stage with tears,...general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free ; Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears!'' "... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...his whole function suiting / With forms to his conceit." Had the player Hamlet's "motive," he would "cleave the general ear with horrid speech, / Make mad the guilty, and appall the free." Properly motivated, the player would, in effect, perpetrate an earsplitting violation... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...he to her, 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,...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.544-60)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...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...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,... | |
 | Garry Wills - Drama - 1995 - 238 pages
...strong similarities to this one, Hamlet 2.2.$62{(., where Hamlet says that a real (not a feigned) murder would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech .... There is no question of killing the stage by immersion. So, in our passage, tears will drench... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...the cue for passion That I have? He opens the doors of a beautiful model theatre. HAMLET (continuing) He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears. Yet I, A... | |
 | 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...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.556-60)... | |
 | Henry Sussman - Philosophy - 1997 - 338 pages
...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...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (II.ii.533-50)... | |
 | Richard Halpern - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...scene 2 but of a form of acting whose passionate intensity would be almost lethal to its audience: "He would drown the stage with tears, / And cleave the general ear with horrid speech" (562-63). Hamlet's language here recalls that used by his fadier's ghost in act i, scene 5 to describe... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...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...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,... | |
| |
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 the free, Confound the ignorant, and... 
