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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 96 "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my HEART of heart, As I do you."-HAMLET, Act III, Scene 3. The authors explain that "It has been a question with the actors of heart' should receive the chief emphasis, some claiming the reading should be 'heart of heart,' others' heart oj heart,' still others' heart of heart.' The first seems to us the preferable reading, for if the lines read, 'I will wear him in my heart's core, ay, in the center of it,' the case would be clear. ,,2 Here 'center' stands in the place of the first' heart.' Hamlet means, "I will wear him in my heart's core (the center of my heart, for that is what "core" means), "ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee." (I will do more than that, I will wear him in which word of the phrase' heart the center of the center, the core of the core-for here "heart" center or core, and can not have the same significance as means when used in the idea "center of my heart.") If the paraphrase were as Fulton and Trueblood would have it, "heart's core" and "center mean exactly the same thing. Shakespeare is never tautological. When he repeats a word he uses it always with dif ferent significance. For example, he puts into Macbeth's mouth, "If 'twere done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly." Here are three "dones" in the same sentence, each with On "heart of hearts" have we not exactly the a different meaning. same reading which is found in the Mercy Speech-viz-"Mightiest in the mightiest"? Ayres, the greatest authority we have upon cen tral idea, would read this line, "'Tis mightiest in the mightiest." Try experimenting, and see how you and all the rest of us naturally say the superlative of the superlative, the highest of the highest, greatest of the greatest, longest of the longest, and so on. Different Emphasis. As we have said before, it is wise to note that emphasis, or the differentiation of the important idea, is brought about in many different ways and with many different pur poses. For instance, if we wish to indicate that two ideas are not alike, we read ofit" would 2 Practical Elocution. How to Teach Reading. |
