O,
there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that
highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of
Christians nor the gait of Cristian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed
that I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them
well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
-Hamlet
Hamlet Act
III scene ii line 34
This is the last sentence of the ‘Speak the speech’ speech
that Hamlet gives to the players. It’s a couple of paragraphs long where he’s telling
the players, who are going to be putting on a play for the court, how to act. In
this last sentence, above, he’s going on about some of the bad actors that he has
seen. Strutted and bellowed! Those are good words.
So I guess there are a lot of different ways to go about discussing
the ‘Speak the speech’ speech, or even just this one sentence in the last
paragraph. But I have work to do right now, so I’m going to leave it to you. It’s
a good sentence, albeit a bit long. So do what you will with it. Strut and bellow
if you like!
This is WP's one hand performance at the roman amphitheater in Merida, Spain. It's wonderfully understated, don't you agree? And not one bit of strutting or bellowing.
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