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" Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music,... "
Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories ...
by Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 865 pages
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Shakespeare's Hamlet, herausg. von K. Elze

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 352 pages
...utterance of harmony : I have not the skill. Ham. Why look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of mo. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood! do you think I am easier to bo played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though...
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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. HAMLET Why look you now how unworthy a thing 360 you make of me. You would play upon me, you would...compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this 365 little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood do you think I am easier to be played on than...
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Henry V, War Criminal?: And Other Shakespeare Puzzles

John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...depicted as enigmatic, even to himself; and he thereby gains greater unity than the postulated hybrid. 'You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery . . . Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.' One way for...
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The Klingon Hamlet

Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...stops. Guildenstern But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though...
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Shakespeare's Noise

Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...he cannot "command to any utterance of harmony," whose use is "as easy as lying," Hamlet cries out, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" (354—61). The speech strikingly recalls...
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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul

Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
..."[i]t is as easy as lying," Hamlet says (3.2.348); yet he presumes to know how to play upon Hamlet: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,...
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Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...long-suspected complicity, he does so as part of a thoroughgoing sequence of musical references in his play: Why, look you now how unworthy a thing you make of...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass . . . Why, do you think that I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,...
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Rosencratz and Gildenstern are Dead by Tom ...

Lloyd Cameron, Rebecca Barnes - Drama - 2001 - 116 pages
...God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. (Act III, Sc. I, lines 144-5) Hamlet: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. (Act III, Sc. ii, lines 371 -4) Claudius: 0, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven. It hath the primal...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...stops. GUILDENSTERN But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill. HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart 360 of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest 361 note to the top of my compass; and there is...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 23

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...Guildenstern. But these cannot I commend to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ' Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though...
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