...hands were trembling. He was grinding his teeth together and he made himself stop. You bitch . HAMLET: O it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated...split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most pan are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, ACT III, SCENE...

...torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temper ance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the...passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I...

...Prince Hamlet with a useful illustration of undisciplined bombast in his advice to the players. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated...to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ... it out-herods Herod. (Ill, ii, 10-17) 1 St. Matthew, II, 1-16. 225 The portrait is vivid and projects...

...beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious 8 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to...groundlings, who for the most part are capable of 10 nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing...

...entrailes of the earth, And easterne whirle-windes in the hellish shades Jonson, The Poetaster (3.4.346-8) to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the...capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise Shakespeare, Hamlet (3.2.10-13) To the extent that it is known at all, The Battle of Alcazar is notorious...

...shortly before, in the same scene (line 14) he has exclaimed against the cheap actor who will . . . split the ears of the groundlings, who (for the most...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. The term 'noise', besides referring to trumpet, drums and cannon, included a band of musicians. The...

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...braggadocio that inspired Hamlet to warn the players against excessive histrionics, when he railed: 'O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious...to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ... I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid...