...the cue for passion/ That I have?" (563-4). And his answer is as predictable as it is unsatisfartory: He would drown the stage with tears. And cleave the...free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very farulty of eyes and ears. (564-8) H.ul the player the properly interior emotions that are intrinsically...

...trial, often equivalent to innocent, as Shaks. Bandet, n. ii. 690— • He would drown the «tage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid...Confound the Ignorant ; and amaze, Indeed, The very faculty of eye* and can.' In AV , Nu 5™- «• » BV ; and the verb Ro ff» ' For he that is dead...

...action. When he sees the player's tears for Hecuba following his recitation, he is moved to shame: "What would he do, / Had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?" (2.2.586-88). Even his intelligence and reason shame Hamlet because he, "Prompted to my revenge by...

...After the reference to Hecuba the actor needs a rising crescendo, and Shakespeare provides it for him: What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for...with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty and appal the tree, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Hamlet's 'kin' and...

...emotional response to the death of a fictional queen, Hamlet asks, What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had...tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech . . . (Fl: 2.2.559-63) Then . . . Am I a coward? [to which compare O_l 'Why sure, I am a coward' (7.368)]...

...his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, . . ." Hamlet contrasts this man with himself: What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for...passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears .... Hamlet goes on to reproach himself for not having been active about obtaining revenge from Claudius:...

...550 With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! 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 555 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,...

...berates himself for not showing his true grief to the extent of the Player King's 'dream of passion': 'what would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?' (2.2.543—45). But the characteristic self-consciousness of the early modem stage must impinge on...

...another shift he finally comes to the reason for his self-reproach, which is stated as another question: "What would he do/ Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have?" This leads into a description of how the Player would act in that situation, which is also very vivid...

...display and provoke a "dream of passion" for "nothing": "What's Hecuba to him, or he to [Hecuba] / That he should weep for her? What would he do / Had...the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?" (2.2.559-62). Hamlet's complaint recalls the Augustinian criticism so popular among the Reformers:...