 | Alfred Thomas Roffe - Ghost in literature - 1851 - 44 pages
...views of the Artistic in Acting, and substituting for the word Playing, the word Poetry. 14" Let your discretion be your Tutor ; suit the Action to the...that you o'erstep not the modesty of Nature ; for anything so done is from the purpose of Poetry, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion...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... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1996 - 98 pages
...playing? Both possibilities are there, but there is tremendous resonance in the apparent simplicity of: 'Let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action...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... | |
 | Albert Haberstro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 114 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it- out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. "Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion...the action; with this special observance, that you o 'er-step not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...honour. HAMLET the worrier is never tar away. A couple of the other actors join the conversation. HAMLET Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion...action to the word, the word to the action, with this Hugely important point. If this doesn't happen, he may not obtain the proof of murder. HAMLET (continuing)... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - Acting - 1997 - 132 pages
...groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise ... ... 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - Acting - 1997 - 132 pages
...groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise ... ... 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1998 - 502 pages
...2 76 (p. 2 3 5) suits the action to the word Shakespeare, Hamlet 3,2,1 7-2 2 : '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, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold... | |
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... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. 
