Πέμπτη 22 Μαΐου 2014

Hamlet of Tango

Paraphrasing Hamlet,
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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