 | Joan Ackermann - Drama - 1999 - 60 pages
...into character.) 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 Get off my ass, buddy. (Looking in the rearview mirror.) Get off my... | |
 | Tom Lutz - Psychology - 2001 - 358 pages
...as his grief at his father's death has still found no expression. "What would he do," he continues, "Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have? He would drown the stage with tears." The various motivations for tears — performative, expressive, and empathetic — are intertwined... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...nothing, 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? [2.2.534-46] Hamlet makes the point that dances before us in every scene. Dramatic, rhetorical motive... | |
 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...the speaker's awareness of play and the reference to the (First) Player looms large. What would he do Had he the motive and [the cue] for passion That I...He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech (2.2.560-563) As the traveling player's capacity for rousing, piercing... | |
 | Gail Holst-Warhaft - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 252 pages
...Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, Confound the ignorant, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...abuse - a loud, low woman 595 About: set about your task Had he the motive and the cue for passion 565 That I have? 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... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...as he watches the professional actor stage his grief for the fictitious Hecuba: 'What would he do | Had he the motive and the cue for passion | That I have?' (2. 2. 562-4) Hieronimo finally discovers the means for revenge by staging a play within the play,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weepe for her? What would he doe, 2.2 Hamlet 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, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant and amaze... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...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 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears 500 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, Confound... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...nothing! 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 state with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty, and appal the... | |
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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? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal... 
