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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 our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines.
- 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 our players do, I had as lief the. town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air.
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. 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 had. spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with. your hand, thus, but useuse gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of your passion,
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 tragedy, using the phrase "speak the speech, I pray you" as a command. He criticizes the exaggerated and unnatural style of some actors and urges them to suit the action to the word and the word to the action.
