Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,... The Tatler - Page 2651803Full view - About this book
| Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz - Philosophy - 2006 - 606 pages
...author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, m, 2. BEAUTY AND ART 7. Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action...observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
| 영미문학연구회 - American literature - 2005 - 598 pages
...it. 1st Player: I warrant your honour. Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own dis cretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word...o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as... | |
| Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 pages
...not necessarily Shakespeare's spokesman, but what he says about acting is crucial: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end . . . was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up... | |
| Niels Bugge Hansen, Søs Haugaard - Drama - 2005 - 170 pages
...performed 'action' and written 'word' (III, ii, 17-9). As the famous phrase goes, 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.' This indeed was sound advice, except that, upon scrutiny, what appears a cogent and altogether impartial... | |
| Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...and for abstractions which become stiff and formal images: 'let your own discretion be your tutor', 'with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.' The language throughout is pleonastic, as in most of the images, or this doublet - 'acquire and beget',... | |
| Lawrence Rainey - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 1217 pages
...word to the action, with this special observance: / 25 "The Mermaid" was an Elizabethan pub supposedly That you o'er-step not the modesty of Nature; for any / thing so frequented by Shakespeare; Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) His actual power was PURELY of the imagination.... | |
| Massimiliano Morini - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 176 pages
...1945, p.326). This, in Hamlet 3, ii, is Hamlet's recommendation to the players: 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
| Jennifer Mulherin, William Shakespeare, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 164 pages
...advises the actors on how to play their parts. Hamlet's instructions to the players Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
| Larry Chang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 826 pages
...unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. ~ William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 ~ Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the body. word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty... | |
| English literature - 2006 - 74 pages
...restraint: dumb shows and noise ... Pray you avoid it. 7. Do not be feeble, but use your discretion: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. 8. The purpose of acting is to reflect reality and contemporary matters: the purpose of playing ...... | |
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