Unit 35: The Play The Thing

Question 1

ROSENCRANTZ: Good my lord.

Answer 1

Ay so, God buy to you.

Question 2

Ay so, God buy to you.

Answer 2

Now I am alone.

Question 3

Now I am alone.

Answer 3

O, what a rogue

Question 4

O, what a rogue

Answer 4

and peasant slave am I!

Question 5

and peasant slave am I!

Answer 5

Is it not monstrous

Question 6

Is it not monstrous

Answer 6

that this player here

Question 7

that this player here,

Answer 7

But in a fiction,

Question 8

But in a fiction,

Answer 8

in a dream of passion,

Question 9

in a dream of passion,

Answer 9

Could force his soul

Question 10

Could force his soul

Answer 10

so to his own conceit-

Question 11

so to his own conceit-

Answer 11

Tears in his eyes,

Question 12

Tears in his eyes,

Answer 12

distraction in his aspect,

Question 13

distraction in his aspect,

Answer 13

A broken voice,

Question 14

A broken voice,

Answer 14

and his whole function suiting

Question 15

and his whole function suiting

Answer 15

With forms to his conceit-

Question 16

With forms to his conceit-

Answer 16

and all for nothing-

Question 17

and all for nothing-

Answer 17

For Hecuba?

Question 18

For Hecuba?

Answer 18

What’s Hecuba to him,

Question 19

What’s Hecuba to him,

Answer 19

or he to her,

Question 20

or he to her,

Answer 20

That he should weep for her?

Question 21

That he should weep for her?

Answer 21

What would he do

Question 22

What would he do

Answer 22

Had he the motive

Question 23

Had he the motive

Answer 23

and that for passion

Question 24

And that for passion

Answer 24

That I have?

Question 25

That I have?

Answer 25

He would drown the stage with tears

Question 26

He would drown the stage with tears

Answer 26

Hum, I have heard

Question 27

Hum, I have heard

Answer 27

That guilty creatures sitting at a play

Question 28

That guilty creatures sitting at a play

Answer 28

Have by the very cunning of the scene

Question 29

Have by the very cunning of the scene

Answer 29

Been struck so to the soul that presently

Question 30

Been struck so to the soul that presently

Answer 30

They have proclaimed their malefactions

Question 31

They have proclaimed their malefactions

Answer 31

For murder,

Question 32

For murder,

Answer 32

though it have no tongue,

Question 33

tough it have no tongue,

Answer 33

will speak

Question 34

will speak

Answer 34

With most miraculous organ.

Question 35

With most miraculous organ.

Answer 35

I’ll have these players

Question 36

I’ll have these players

Answer 36

Play something like the murder of my father.

Question 37

Play something like the murder of my father

Answer 37

Before mine uncle.

Question 38

Before mine uncle.

Answer 38

I’ll observe his looks,

Question 39

I’ll observe his looks,

Answer 39

I’ll tent him to the quick.

Question 40

I’ll tent him to the quick.

Answer 40

If a’do blench

Question 41

If ‘a do blench

Answer 41

I know my course.

Question 42

I know my course.

Answer 42

The play’s the thing

Question 43

The play’s the thing

Answer 43

Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.