| Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 pages
...the right place? And even a greater than Swift or Voltaire is not much more practical as a teacher. "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet. "Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor." Can you trust your own... | |
| Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 402 pages
...the right place? And even a greater than Swift or Voltaire is not much more practical as a teacher. " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet. " Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor." Can you trust your... | |
| William V. O'Connell - 1926 - 218 pages
...author here briefly discusses the relationship of the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet to his own rules, "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." However, the fault of telling students what to do without telling them why or how to do it is quite... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric, University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1926 - 412 pages
...publishers, Macmillan and Company, Limited, 'from Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates, 1899. "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet. "Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor." Can you trust your own... | |
| Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 pages
...words rather than long, and specially in short sentences. . . . (Quoted by Bainton, 182 ff.) HAMLET Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. (Ill ii 19 ff.) THOMAS... | |
| 1927 - 740 pages
...it is a kind of necessitity for him and his art to supply a fitting phrase. Hamlet said an actor had to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action! And it is on this last principle that the actors in Sh.'s plays sometimes want addional phrases when entering... | |
| Jack Frakes - 1968 - 44 pages
...Rule — I've read so much I get mixed up. SCHOOLTEACHER. Just do your best, Tootie, and remember — "Suit the action to the word and the word to the action." TOOTIE. Welll . . . (Then, very dramatically, "Suiting the action to the word and the word to the action.")... | |
| James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...artistic problem, I have been urging, is how to bring about the marriage of word and deed in drama, how to suit the action to the word and the word to the action, presumably without trampling on, let alone merely o'erstepping, the modesty of nature. 9 TS Eliot,... | |
| Rolf Soellner - 1972 - 488 pages
...word "journeyman" is indicative: Shakespeare himself had as an apprentice or journeyman been taught to suit the action to the word and the word to the action. When he had Hamlet imply that the new style was against nature, he surely meant that it was against... | |
| 1898 - 1072 pages
...right place ? And even a greater than Swift or Voltaire is not much more practical as a teacher. ' Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action,' says Hamlet. ' Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor.' Can you trust your... | |
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