...voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing. For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (2.2.553-64) Here, as elsewhere...

..."distraction in his aspect" (2.2.554-55) display and provoke a "dream of passion" for "nothing": "What's Hecuba to him, or he to [Hecuba] / That he should weep for her? What would he do / Had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?" (2.2.559-62). Hamlet's...

...who is able to express a powerful lament for Hecuba in the play he is rehearsing and asks: "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?" (II, ii, 532-33). Think what this actor would be able to say, Hamlet goes on, if he had my real-world...

...Whereas in Hamlet she represents a kind of uncensored emotional outpouring that Hamlet envies — "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her?" Hamlet asks of a player who has been moved to tears reciting a speech about her (2.2.536—37) —...

...campaign against the bellicosity of males? "For Hecuba!" — Hamlet, typically male, snorts — "What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba / That he should weep for her?" If men can moum the death of Hector, why can't they weep for the life of Hecuba? And why shouldn't...

...feel genuine emotions about what we watch? This page intentionally left blank EIGHT Emotion What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her? — Shakespeare, Hamlet 2.2, lines 559—60 The actor turns pale; tears come to his eyes and his voice...

...Player's commemoration is 'all for nothing. For Hecuba' (II. ii. 534-5), begging the questions, What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That 1 have?144 Here, the player is a comparative...