 | Tom Lutz - Psychology - 2001 - 352 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... | |
 | Literature - 2002 - 478 pages
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 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 298 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 - 228 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 - 2000 - 336 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... | |
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