 | Kathy Elgin - England - 2005 - 36 pages
...the actors' skill. Even uneducated people were accustomed to using their imaginations in this way. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in...his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd. HAMLET, ACT 2, SCENE 2 but: only concert: thing he was imagining visage: face wann'd: went... | |
 | Kenneth S. Jackson - English drama - 2005 - 324 pages
...follows, Shakespeare calls attention not just to Hamlet's "inaction," but the wonder of "playing": Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in...his own conceit That from her working all his visage waned. Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting... | |
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O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's... 
