 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,...I have ? He would drown the stage with tears, And gleave the general ear* with horrid speech; Made mad the guilty, and appal the free, Confound the ignorant;... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,...her ? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue1 for passion, That I have ? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear* with... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - Art - 2004 - 600 pages
...performance would have looked like if it had been based not on an imaginary picture but on sheer reality: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for...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... | |
 | Salvo Pitruzzella - Drama - 2004 - 212 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing. For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? (Shakespeare, Hamlet) Fictions In the last period of his life, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovskij... | |
 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 376 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing. For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? (3.1.552-62) Hamlet confronts here the negation of his earlier disavowal of mere "forms." Whereas he... | |
 | Salvo Pitruzzella - Medical - 2004 - 216 pages
...aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing. For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? (Shakespeare, Hamlet) Fictions In the last period of his life, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovskij... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - Heroes in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...action. When he sees the player's tears for Hecuba following his recitation, he is moved to shame: "What would he do, / Had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?" (2.2.586-88). Even his intelligence and reason shame Hamlet because he, "Prompted to my revenge by... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...his fantasies Hamlet identifies with the player and sees himself able to move his audience deeply: 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... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...to realize this himself when he reacts to the First Player's involuntary emotional display: "What's Hecuba to him, or he to [Hecuba], / That he should weep for her?" (2.2.559-60). But students of the early modern affects should note that Shakespeare's version of the... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...lines which in their balance and pointed quality have the perfection of a classical epigram: What's Hecuba to him. or he to Hecuba. That he should weep for her? (II.ii.5 59-60) As Hamlet turns to apply the lesson of the actor to his own case. his speech becomes... | |
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What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have... 
