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Hamlet gives advice to the players on how to act naturally and avoid overdoing it. He says, "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue."
- Act 2, Scene 2
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- Act 2, Scene 2
Jun 2, 2020 · Hamlet gives direction to the actors and asks Horatio to help him observe Claudius’s reaction to the play. The speech he prays the players to speak trippingly on the tongue is about the art of acting and the mirror of nature.
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.
Hamlet gives advice to the players on how to perform a play, emphasizing the importance of suitability, moderation and naturalness. He criticizes the exaggerated and unnatural style of some actors and compares them to Herod and Termagant.
Hamlet gives a speech to the players about how to act a play, using the phrase "speak the speech, I pray you" (Act 3 Scene 2). He criticizes their exaggerated and unnatural style and gives them advice on how to suit the action to the word.
Hamlet gives advice to the actors on how to perform his play, emphasizing the importance of naturalness and moderation. He criticizes the exaggerated and artificial style of some players, using the phrase "speak the speech, I pray you" as a command.
Hamlet gives instructions to the players on how to perform a tragedy, and criticizes their exaggerated style. He also reveals his plan to watch Claudius' reaction to a scene that resembles his father's murder.
