Paraphrasing Hamlet,
see original here
Go make you ready.
see original here
Clearly walk the steps I
pray you
as I pronounced it to you,
slightly touching your
partners body
but if your intentions
are as many of the
dancers do, handling and
pushing and dragging
better keep your dance
as solo.
Nor do not saw the
air too much with your feet
thus,
but use all gently; for
in the
very torrent, tempest,
and, as I may say,
whirlwind of your
passion,
you must acquire and
beget a temperance
that may give it
smoothness.
Oh, it offends me to the
soul
to watch a masculine
,all dressed up,
greasy hair fellow ,tear a passion to
tatters, to very rags,
to split
the ears of the
groundlings, who for the
most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable
dumb-shows
and noise. I would have
such
ladies whipped for
o'erdoing pugliese
more than pugliese
himself.
Pray you avoid it.
Be not too tame neither,
but let
your own discretion be
your
tutor. Suit the dance to
the music, the music
to the dance, with this
special observance, that
you o'erstep not the
modesty of nature. For
anything so o'erdone is
from the purpose
of dancing, whose end
both
at the first and now,
was and is, to hold
as 'twere, the mirror up
to nature; to show
virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image,
and the very age and
body of the
time his form and
pressure. Now
this overdone, or come
tardy off,
though it make the
unskilful
laugh, cannot but make
the judicious grieve,
the censure of the
which one must in your
allowance
o'erweigh a whole theatre of
others.
Oh, there be dancers
that I have
seen dancing, and heard others
praise and that highly,
not to speak it
profanely,
have so strutted and
bellowed that I have
thought some of nature's
journeymen had made men,
and not
made them well, they
imitated
humanity so abominably.
Oh reform it altogether.
And do not dance more
than you have to claim.
Nor for amuse some
quantity of barren
spectators
though in the meantime
some necessary question
of
the dance be then to be
considered.
That's villainous, and
shows
a most pitiful ambition
in the dancer
that uses it. Go, make you ready.
Hamlet: 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 your hand thus, but use all gently; for in the
very
torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion,
you
must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it
smoothness.
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated
fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split
the
ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing
but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such
a
fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant — it out-Herods Herod.
Pray
you avoid it.
First
Player: I warrant your honour.
Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own
discretion be your
tutor.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this
special
observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For
anything
so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both
at the
first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror up
to
nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,
and
the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now
this
overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful
laugh,
cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the
which
one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of
others.
Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others
praise
and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having
the
accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man,
have
so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's
journeymen
had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
humanity
so abominably.
First
Player: I hope we have reformed
that indifferently with us, sir.
Hamlet: Oh reform it altogether. And let those that play
your clowns
speak
no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that
will
themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators
to
laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of
the
play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows
a most pitiful ambition
in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.
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