...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 he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (2.2.553-64) Here, as elsewhere when he himself is cast as a spectator of grief, Hamlet 'weeps at not...

...performed weeping seems to have more force than his own inaction: 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? (2.2.494-7) Both Hamlet and the play as a whole are obsessed by the idea of performance. Polonius'...

...was also deeply appreciated; but most of all my wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had...he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear 'Hamlet' Contents Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 191 Prologue We experience...

...was also deeply appreciated; but most of all my wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had...he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear 'Hamlet' Contents Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 191 Prologue We experience...

...was also deeply appreciated; but most of all my wife, Dolly, who suffered my need to write this book. That he should weep for her? What would he do, had...he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? William Shakespear 'Hamlet' Contents Acknowledgment v Prologue xi Epilogue 191 Prologue We experience...

...he contends, would perform much better in such circumstances, with such a motive and cue. He -would 'make mad the guilty and appal the free, / Confound...amaze Indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears' (541-3). In contrast, Hamlet laments, he himself rests in Elsinore, 'like John-a-dreams, unpregnant...

...on doing so). After hearing the Player's passionate delivery of "Priam's slaughter," Hamlet wonders, "What would he do had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have?" (2.2.554—6). And he gives the answer, "He would drown the stage with tears, / And cleave the ear...

...nothing. For Hecuba' (II. ii. 534-5), begging the questions, What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That 1 have?144 Here, the player is a comparative model for the performance of remembrance. However, Hamlet's...