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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,... "
William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic - Page 437
by William Shakespeare - 1852
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Shakespeare Among the Moderns

Richard Halpern - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...useful."50 The allusion, of course, is to Hamlet's famous description of himself as a musical pipe: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be play'd on than...
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Explorations in Renaissance Drama

Mary Beth Rose - Business & Economics - 1997 - 184 pages
...this pipe? [the Player's recorder] GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot. ... I have not the skill. HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and Ingenious Riddles* Riddle XIV. HER Back-is round, her Bellas flat withal, Her metamorphosM Outs are...
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Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time

Nina Auerbach - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 540 pages
...integrity to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after the play might have come from the soul of Ellen Terry: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? ,/rt Call me what instrument you...
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The Tyranny of Relativism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society

Richard Hoggart - Social Science - 380 pages
...Only two things the people anxiously desire, bread and circus games. Juvenal, Satires, X, c. AD 100 Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery . . . William Shakespeare, Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern None can love freedom heartily but...
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Shakespeare and the Law

Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - Drama - 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...and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than...
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The Little Theater's Production of 'Hamlet': A Play

Jean Battlo - Appalachian Region - 1999 - 76 pages
...here too. (Begins reading; then quotes as if she 's often thought of her former husband in this way.) "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...and there is much music; excellent voice, in this organ, yet cannot you make it speak 'Sblood, do you think I'm easier to be play'd on than a pipe? Call...
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A Practical Handbook for Ministry: From the Writings of Wayne E. Oates

Thomas W. Chapman - Religion - 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...and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think that I am easier to be play'd on...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...explanatory prose. Instead, he appended A Lover's Complaint, as if to tell the wider lyric audience, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery" (Hamlet 3.2.363-66). Why then, you figure it out. As Shakespeare warns us from the very outset of A...
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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. HAMLET Why look you now how unworthy a thing 360 you make of me. You would play upon me, you would...compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this 365 little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood do you think I am easier to be played on than...
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Making Theatre: From Text to Performance

Peter Mudford - Social Science - 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...and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. (Act III, scene 2) The heart of the mystery in an actor...
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