| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. Hamlet — Hamlet II. ii Speak the speech I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 214 pages
...16-17 let . . . tutor judge for yourselves. SCENE 2 Enter Hamlet and three of the Players Hamlet Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, 5 thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your... | |
| Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 192 pages
...How are music and meaning, sound and sense, conversation and versification to be reconciled? "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines." If the Prince composed "Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit and time agreeing",... | |
| Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my...gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.... | |
| Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 196 pages
...books," for he teaches the visiting players the very opposite of the artificial and derived: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you...many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in... | |
| Stephen Unwin - 2004 - 256 pages
...to the players' (3.2) gives us a useful insight into the Elizabethan theatre at work: HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...'HAMLET, and three of the Players' come from behind the curtains HAMLET [to the First Player] Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you, trippingly...all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.... | |
| James Zager, William Shakespeare - 2005 - 70 pages
...one another, each company member taking or sharing a line.) [Hamlet: Act III Scene ii] COMPANY. Speak the speech I pray you, as I pronounced it to you trippingly...many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; For in... | |
| John Mantle Clapp, John Clapp, Mantle, Edwin A. Kane - 2006 - 661 pages
...are — i. Expressing the core in words that catch the ear because of their striking sound : "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines." "Of course, the personal equation is most important, and yet when you come to questions of selection... | |
| Dick Curtis - 2006 - 229 pages
...actor, and director himself ... as evidenced by Hamlet's speech to the players, when he said . . .Speak the speech I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...mouth it, as many of your players do ... I had as leif the town crier spoke my lines." The old actor then proceeded to recite the entire, wonderful soliloquy,... | |
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