 Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 71by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...not to say prescribes, a culturally refined, socially selective, decorous understanding of "nature." Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature (3.2.16-19) The player, Hamlet suggests, should have a "tutor" whose name is "discretion." The same... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod, pray you avoid it. 15 FIRST PLAYER I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty 20 of nature. For any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first,... | |
 | Humanities - 1984 - 898 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. I warrant your honour. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods 14 Herod. Pray you avoid it. PLAYER I warrant your honor. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything 20 so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
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