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The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes - Page 391
by William Shakespeare - 1791
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A Sociology of the Absurd

Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott - Social Science - 1989 - 264 pages
...qualities appropriate to Machiavelli's and modern society: Why I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart And...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.... I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like...
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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...another Clinias when he vaunts his actor's talent: "Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, / And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart,...with artificial tears, / And frame my face to all occasions" (3H6 3.2.182-85). His cohort in the next play of the tetralogy, Buckingham, shows that he...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown, ... Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, And cry, "Content," to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;...
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Edward the Second

Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1995 - 388 pages
...gleeful fantasy of wickedness also has a Marlovian ring: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the...
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Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance

Katharine Eisaman Maus - Performing Arts - 1995 - 232 pages
...characters, he exploits the invisibility of his own interior. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry 'Content!' to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile; 3 occasions: I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;...
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...Renaissance writers typically used to describe actors: Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the...
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories

Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - Electronic books - 1997 - 276 pages
...that Renaissance writers often used to describe actors: Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears. And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages. And set the...
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Barrymore: A Play

William Luce - Drama - 1998 - 60 pages
...will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile; And cry content to that which grieves my heart; And...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor;...
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War Crimes Law Comes of Age: Essays

Theodor Meron - History - 1998 - 360 pages
...will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and mueder whiles I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears. And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;...
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