...function suiting / With forms to his conceit' (2.2.529, 30—4). What would the Player do, Hamlet wonders, 'had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?' (538—9). Answering that question, the Prince assumes 'real life' passion to be more intense, more...

...wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear 'Hamlet' Contents Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 191 Prologue We experience...

...hearing the Player's passionate delivery of "Priam's slaughter," Hamlet wonders, "What would he do had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have?" (2.2.554—6). And he gives the answer, "He would drown the stage with tears, / And cleave the ear...

...wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear Waalet" Contentsv Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 199 Prologue We experience...

...wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear Waalet" Contents , Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 199 Prologue We experience...

...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. Polonius'...