 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - Criticism - 2004 - 372 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.... | |
 | Tiffany Stern - Drama - 2004 - 203 pages
...known it / Without a prompter', TLN' 302-3, 1.2.83-1); 'What would he [the player] doe.' asks Hamlet, 'Had he the Motive and the Cue for passion / That I have?' (TLN 1601-3, 2.2.561-2) (Q2 H4b 'and that for passion'). But the major difference between performances... | |
 | Bridget Escolme - Acting - 2005 - 212 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... | |
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 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 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 - Comedy - 2005 - 176 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... | |
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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... 
