 | Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - 1999 - 268 pages
...attempt of later generations to sound the greatest depths of his nature and to each he says, like Hamlet, Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though... | |
 | Thomas W. Chapman - 1999 - 544 pages
.... . 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...in this little organ, 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 pages
...unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you .t.1o would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. affected "I lack advancement", and his indignation in the "recorders" passage which immediately follows... | |
 | Mary Thomas Crane - 2010 - 276 pages
...vehemently denies his instrumentality in language that links it to the possession of hidden interiority: "You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak" (3.2.364-69). However, Hamlet's references to inner cognitive process abruptly cease after the closet... | |
 | Peter Mudford - 2000 - 272 pages
...disloyalty, he reminds him of an important difference between the solo player and the member of the company: You would play upon me; you would seem to know my...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. (Act III, scene 2) The heart of the mystery in an actor can only be played upon by other actors who... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - 2001 - 304 pages
...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...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" (354—61). The speech strikingly recalls... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...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...in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...these are the stops. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill. Why, look you now how unworthy a thing you make of...in this little organ: yet cannot you make it speak. Why, do you think that I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...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...in this little organ yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 216 pages
...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...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ' Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though... | |
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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,... 
