| Catherine M. S. Alexander - Literary Collections - 2004 - 310 pages
...courrly playing upon him as a phallic pipe or recorder of which he accuses Rosencrant2 and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this lirtle organ, yet cannot you make it speak, 'Sblood, do you think I... | |
| Mary Anneeta Mann - Mimesis in literature - 2004 - 230 pages
...sound out Hamlet. The scene ends with Hamlet's emotional plea concerning the duplicity of their method: How unworthy a thing you make of me! you would play...stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; . . . and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak.... | |
| Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill. Hamlet. Why look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, 1 This stage direction is taken from Q2. The F text reads: 'Enter one with a recorder'. Cf.... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...GUILD'RN But these cannot I command to any utt'rance of har- 350 mony, I have not the skill. HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...note to the top of my compass - and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I... | |
| Lindsay Price - 2005 - 52 pages
...GUILDENSTERN: But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill. HAMLET: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though... | |
| Patrick J. Deneen, Joseph Romance - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 252 pages
...talk. When the feckless and unskilled Guildenstern cannot oblige, Hamlet touchily retorts that yet you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of the compass. . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument... | |
| Nicholas Brooke - Drama - 2005 - 240 pages
...after the King's exit, and it is finally expounded in his dialogue with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my...stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery . . . (in. ii. 354-5) Scene iii effects a complete reversal of tone: the King, when Polonius leaves... | |
| InterLingua.com, Incorporated - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 435 pages
...these are the stops. But these cannot I command to any utt' ranee of harmony. I have not the skill. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I... | |
| Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...endeavours to manipulate him. He accuses the younger men of trying to play upon him as on a recorder: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 3.2.355-60 As Polonius... | |
| Anton Chekhov - Performing Arts - 2007 - 1128 pages
...your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music." NIKITA. "I have not the skill." SVETLOVIDOV. "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery. Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you... | |
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