 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. Exeunt Enter HAMLET and two or three of the PLAYERS Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. Nor... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...'e' wltuch. Act III, Scene II SCENE II A hall in the castle. [Enter HAMLET and Players] Hamlet Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many ofyour players do, I had as lief the town -crier spoke my lines. Nor do... | |
 | Susan Sontag - Fiction - 2001 - 402 pages
...Hamlet, he's a sly one too. He pretends not to be acting. And he gives acting lessons to others. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. Don't you think his instructions to the actors are rather obvious? Very. Suit the action to the word,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...ones must not unwatched go. Exeunt. °*> 111.2 Enter Hamlet and three of the Players. HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. Exevnt 1 1 1. 2 Enter Hamlet and the Players HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 192 pages
...How are music and meaning, sound and sense, conversation and versification to be reconciled? "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines." If... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. Hamlet — Hamlet II. ii Speak the speech I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines. Nor do... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Allusions - 2003 - 332 pages
...Dover Wilson insists that Hamlet's advice to the players at the very beginning of this scene ("Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue..." [3.2.11) was in fact about this speech, the interpolated dozen or sixteen lines added by Hamlet, lines... | |
 | Body, Mind & Spirit - 180 pages
...5.3.40)? Hamlet gives the traveling players the most famous stage direction in theater history — "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue" (3.2.1) — and some say it's the closest we'll ever come to Shakespeare's idea of acting. In A Midsummer... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...books," for he teaches the visiting players the very opposite of the artificial and derived: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you — trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. Nor... | |
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 
