 | Thomas W. Chapman - 1999 - 544 Seiten
.... . These cannot I command to any utterance of harmony." Then, with much vehemence, Hamlet replies: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think that I am easier to be play'd on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 Seiten
...stops. Guildenstern But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...play upon me. [Enter POLONIUS] God bless you, sir! Polonius My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - 2001 - 304 Seiten
...he cannot "command to any utterance of harmony," whose use is "as easy as lying," Hamlet cries out, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" (354—61). The speech strikingly recalls the induction to 2 Henry IV, delivered by the Virgilian figure... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 Seiten
...know my stops, you would pluck out the heart 360 of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest 361 note to the top of my compass; and there is much music,...played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you 365 will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. Enter Polonius. God bless you, sir! POLONIUS... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 216 Seiten
...Guildenstern. But these cannot I commend to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. (nI, ii, 341-62) It is passages such as this which make one aware of the soundness of FP Wilson's judgement... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 Seiten
...metaphor of the musical instrument for his innermost soul. Hamlet says to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me" (Hamlet 3.2.351-60). Men and women in a drama can enter it in the dark. They know little about the... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 2002 - 320 Seiten
...Francis Barker, seems to answer generations of critics as well as it does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. (3.2.335-41) This is not to say, say, pace Barker, Eagleton, and Belsey, that we should reify Hamlet's... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 Seiten
...courtly playing upon him as a phallic pipe or recorder of which he accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. (3 .2.3 5 2-60) In contrast to this courtly attempt to play upon or 'sound' him, Hamlet's resonant... | |
 | Thomas Heywood, Sonia Massai - 2003 - 168 Seiten
...read alongside Tabor's reference to his 'pipe' at 2.2.27, echoes Shakespeare's Hamlet, 3.2.355-61: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?' 135 hare prostitute, from its close assonance with 'hoar'/'whore'; see Mercutio's lines in Shakespeare's... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern deserve Hamlet's contempt for the inefficacy of their prying, and he tells them, "You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" If Hamlet's "mystery" is more — or perhaps less — than the secret plans he is suspected of nursing,... | |
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Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music,... 
