...do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have ? He would drown the stage with tears 560 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make...for a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward ? Who calls me villain ? Breaks my pate across ? 570 Plucks off...

...description of a theatrical performance, fusing the actor's art with the Prince's actual grievance: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (11.2.554-60) It is the wishful ideal of a performance that produces visible moral effects such as...

...to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting...peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made, Am...

...SCENE II HAMLET. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from...for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made . . . These approaching emotions we have been discussing are often described...

...wanned, Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting 540 With forms to his conceit; and all for nothing! For...indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, 550 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing;...

...his own conceit That from her working all his visage wanned, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting...for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard...

...suiting With forms 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...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.544-60) If Hecuba were not a representational fiction, one would conclude from this passage that...

...do in the audience members that Hamlet imagines for the Player, had he Hamlet's "cue for passion." He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.556-60) Presenting the visible and audible in partnership, the Player's Speech functions as a...

...his own conceit That from her working all the visage wanned, Tears in her eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (II.ii.533-50) Yet the very predicament in which Hamlet finds himself embedded offers its own means...

...broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit; and all for nothing! For Hecuba! That I have? he would drown the stage with tears And...very faculties of eyes and ears; yet I, A dull and miiddv-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no not...