...which passes show, as he watches the professional actor stage his grief for the fictitious Hecuba: 'What would he do | Had he the motive and the cue for passion | That I have?' (2. 2. 562-4) Hieronimo finally discovers the means for revenge by staging a play within the play,...

...What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weepe for her? What would he doe, 2.2 Hamlet Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?...free, Confound the ignorant and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant...

...continues, using a theatrical metaphor, had he "the motive and the cue for passion" that Hamlet has? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (2.2.555-60) The Player would act, but only in the theatrical sense. He would act on the stage and...

...suiting 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...passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears 500 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, Confound...

...suiting 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...the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the state with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty, and appal the...

...funzione Che s'adattava con le forme alla sua idea? For Hecubal What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her ? What would he do Had...tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, $6o Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties...

...passion' to the Player and imagining the result, the act is translated into a theatrical declamation: He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. («,", 555-9-) It is natural for him to translate intention into language — into verbal rather than...

...It seems to him that if the player had the 'motive and the cue for passion' that he has, the player would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general...free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes and ears. (2.2.562-6) But this is merely an instance of the over-acting that he himself...

...conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuha! Whar's Hecuha to him, or he to her, That he should weep for het? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would dtown the stage with rears, And cleave the genetal ear with hotrid speech, Make mad the guilty and...

...seriousness of Clement McCallin's First Player charged and challenged Hamlet's spiritual resources: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (и, ii, 594-6) In coupling 'motive' and 'cue' Shakespeare is approaching the paradoxical centre of...