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 British Essayists: Tatler - Page 2551823Full view - About this book
| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness . . . [And] suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature . . . (3.2.1-19) This advice may very well convey the professional views of the actor— poet, William... | |
| Frank Barrie - Acting - 2003 - 136 pages
...robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the 6 Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion...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... | |
| 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... | |
| K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant. It outherods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 16 [I.] Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...the word, the word to the action; with this special 20 observance, that you [o'erstep] not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 356 pages
...exhortation to the troupe of players who are to perform at the court of Denmark: 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature' (Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, ii, 17-19). 147. at her request and M.'s ... W 's poems: M. is Margaret;... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...observance, that you 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... | |
| 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...observance, that you 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...and so he urges the troupe to be most natural, most exacting in their performance. 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... | |
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