The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More
Apps...
Quotation by Shakespeare
The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now,
was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show
virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and
body of the time his form and pressure.
was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show
virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and
body of the time his form and pressure.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2, l. 20-4.
Hamlet's advice to the actors has its origins in classical rhetoric; they are to show plainly the appearance (feature) of virtue and of vice, and reflect the present state of affairs; "pressure" means impression, as if in wax.
Hamlet's advice to the actors has its origins in classical rhetoric; they are to show plainly the appearance (feature) of virtue and of vice, and reflect the present state of affairs; "pressure" means impression, as if in wax.
Surprise me with a
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
