...groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise ... ... Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion...observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and...

...2 76 (p. 2 3 5) suits the action to the word Shakespeare, Hamlet 3,2,1 7-2 2 : 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold...

...o'erdoing Termagant - it out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. I PLAYER I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...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,...

...not to say prescribes, a culturally refined, socially selective, decorous understanding of "nature." Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature (3.2.16-19) The player, Hamlet suggests, should have a "tutor" whose name is "discretion." The same...

...o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod, pray you avoid it. 15 FIRST PLAYER I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty 20 of nature. For any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first,...

...o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods 14 Herod. Pray you avoid it. PLAYER I warrant your honor. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything 20 so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and...

...fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. I warrant your honour. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and...

...a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. Hamlet — IlIM Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her...

...o'erdoing Termagant. It outHerods Herod. Pray you avoid it. First Player i5 I warrant your honour. Hamlet Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep 20 from . . . playing: contrary to the aims of drama. 21-2 hold . . . nature: show life as it really...

...it. F1RST PLAYER I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too lame neither. But let your own cliscretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, 20 bolli at the tirst and now, was...