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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from 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 own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from 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 own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure
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Be not too tame neither but let your own discretion be your tutor
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Suit the action to the word the word to the action
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with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature
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For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing
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whose end both at the first and now
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was and is to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature
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to show virtue her own feature scorn her own image
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Movie Summary
Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
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Hamlet
