 | Body, Mind & Spirit - 180 pages
...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... | |
 | 2004 - 428 pages
...them. (Ill, i, 55-59) Hamlet ($=.# • $-# ' 55-59 ft) Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as life the town-crier spoke my lines. (...) for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing,... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...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 do not saw the air too much... | |
 | Stephen Unwin - Drama - 2004 - 256 pages
...Young Director 233 Endnotes 237 Index 246 SO YOU WANT TO BE A THEATRE DIRECTOR? 'Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.' Hamlet 'The truth is concrete.' Bertolt Brecht Note on gender I've used 'he' and 'his' throughout to... | |
 | James Zager, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 70 pages
...each company member taking or sharing a line.) [Hamlet: Act III Scene ii] COMPANY. 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 do not saw the air too much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...and three of the Players' come from behind the curtains HAMLET [to the First Player] 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. Nor do not saw the air too much with... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...unsympathetic figure of the anxious author trying to get his piece acted properly: 'Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue' (although one would like to know what a professional Elizabethan company thought of those amateur authors... | |
 | Marc Shell - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 362 pages
...Claudius was. At a crucial moment in the play, though, Hamlet requests of the Players: "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." The meaning of the term tripping has an internal dialectic that relates to walking and talking. On... | |
 | John Mantle Clapp, John Clapp, Mantle, Edwin A. Kane - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 661 pages
...Expressing the core in words that catch the ear because of their striking sound : "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." "Of course, the personal equation... | |
 | Dick Curtis - Indiana - 2006 - 229 pages
...director himself ... as evidenced by Hamlet's speech to the players, when he said . . .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 leif the town crier spoke my lines." The old actor then proceeded to... | |
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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 your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 
