 | Heinrich F. Plett - 2004 - 600 pągines
...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 passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2004 - 196 pągines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pągines
...conceit; and all for nothing! 540 For Hecuba! 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? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,... | |
 | Karen Newman - 2005 - 176 pągines
...to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion 555 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid... | |
 | Bridget Escolme - 2005 - 212 pągines
...to the death of a fictional queen, Hamlet asks, 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? He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - 2005 - 216 pągines
...his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, . . ." Hamlet contrasts this man with himself: What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears .... Hamlet goes on to reproach himself for... | |
 | Harriett Hawkins - 2005 - 308 pągines
...another shift he finally comes to the reason for his self-reproach, which is stated as another question: "What would he do/ Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have?" This leads into a description of how the Player would act in that situation,... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - 2006 - 198 pągines
...provoke a "dream of passion" for "nothing": "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?" (2.2.559-62). Hamlet's complaint recalls the Augustinian criticism so popular... | |
 | Janette Dillon - 2007 - 147 pągines
...seems to have more force than his own inaction: What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (2.2.494-7) Both Hamlet and the play as a whole are obsessed by the idea of performance.... | |
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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... 
