 | John Gibson, John Gibson, Dr, Wolfgang Huemer - Philosophy - 2004 - 356 pages
...with his original sense that authenticity resides in an interior self: "What would he do." he asks, "Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have?" (563-4). And his answer is as predictable as it is unsatisfartory: He would drown the stage with tears.... | |
 | Bridget Escolme - Drama - 2005 - 192 pages
...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 . . . (Fl: 2.2.559-63) Then . . . Am I a coward? [to which compare O_l... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 206 pages
...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 not having been active about obtaining revenge from Claudius:... | |
 | Karen Newman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 168 pages
...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 speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 896 pages
...not showing his true grief to the extent of the Player King's 'dream of passion': 'what would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?' (2.2.543—45). But the characteristic self-consciousness of the early modem stage must impinge on... | |
 | Harriett Hawkins - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...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, which is also very vivid... | |
 | Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 357 pages
...all there is. Grief, as Hamlet sees it, can't be anything other than performance: 'What would he do / Had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?' (562—4). Hamlet's dilemma — his awareness that real feeling, while it 'passes show', cannot escape... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 178 pages
..."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 among the Reformers:... | |
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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... 
