...With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing. For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.539-554) The real tears shed by the First Player for an imaginary pain function, on the level...

...social dialogue. In comparing himself to one of the professional actors, Hamlet laments: What would he Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?...indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I. ..can say nothing... (II. ii. 586-595) Although Hamlet often denies or disguises his longing to speak...

...social dialogue. In comparing himself to one of the professional actors, Hamlet laments: What would he Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?...amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I...can say nothing... (II, ii, 586-595) Although Hamlet often denies or disguises his longing to speak...

...With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 585 That he should weep for her? What would he do, had...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, 590 Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears. Yet...

...fiction, in a dream of Passion, Can force his soul so to his whole conceit, That he can drown the very stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. He can call spirits from the vasty deep, Make church-yards yawn, and shew the sheeted ghosts Revisiting...

...further prompt to stage 'The Mousetrap', cf. II. ii. 584-601): What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (II. ii. 553-6) In some ways Hamlet's 'own' mistaken sense here of not 'measuring up' finally returns...

...Hamlet advocated an intemperate mode of acting out passion at odds with his instructions to the players: What would he do / Had he the motive and [the cue] for passion That I have? He would drown the stage in with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech Make mad the guilty, and appall the free,...

...of their own - the literary - trade. What may be the lesson of Otto Korner's life story? Maybe this: "Make mad the guilty and appal the free, confound...amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears" (2.2.587-60). With this quotation. I have arrived at the final part of my essay. Let me now point out...

...performance would have looked like if it had been based not on an imaginary picture but on sheer reality: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (II.ii.554- 560) What Hamlet describes here is known in rhetorical theory as fustian or bombast.16...

...his fantasies Hamlet identifies with the player and sees himself able to move his audience deeply: He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.556-60) Even Hamlet's self-reproach for being unpregnant of his cause is self-dramatized into...