...Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly : These, indeed, seem, 1'or they are actions that a man might play : But I have...show ; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe. King. 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father...

...contrary of the seeming he repudiates (I.ii.76-86). No "forms, moods, shapes of grief" (82) can denote him truly: These indeed seem, For they are actions that...show— These but the trappings and the suits of woe. (83-86) Hamlet changes his attitude toward seeming when he puts on his antic disposition, when he uses...

...stage: Nothing, not inky cloaks, sighing, weeping, or downcast eyes, "can denote me truly. These ... are actions that a man might play, / But I have that within which passes show" (I.ii.83-85). That declaration attacks the conventions by which characters communicate...

...'Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not 'seems'.' And then:Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,' and, 'These indeed 'seem', for they are actions that a...play; But I have that within which passeth show.' The illusory images caught by candle flames during the procession, the cries of eloquence and the claims...

...lines to himself: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black . . . But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of Woe. The central conflict in The Magnificent Ambersons — a son's almost pathological jealousy of his widowed...

...fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shapes of grief. That can denote me truly; these indeed seem,...show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe. How much of our conduct, how many of our attitudes, stem from the true self responding appropriately...

...adds, the sighs, the tears, the dejected havior of the visage — "That can denote me truly." 1 hese indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might...— These but the trappings and the suits of woe. What we must not overlook here is Hamlet's visible attire, giving the verbal imagery a theatrical extension....

...fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief That can denote me truly. These indeed 'seem',...show These but the trappings and the suits of woe. There are whispers now through the CROWD. They're witnessing a scene that should take place behind...

...dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote one truly. These indeed seem, For they are actions that...show— These but the trappings and the suits of woe. (1.2.77-86) "That within which passeth show" gets scripted and shown, orienting players and alerting...

...underlying constraints that generated the relationships." Hamlet's famous lines make this very distinction: These indeed seem. For they are actions that a man...show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 6. Speech Acts. chap. 2. 7. Models and Metaphors, p. 165. 8. The preceding discussion, and the lerms...