Author: Esther Freud

Cites

• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Lucky Break (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hamlet's advice to the players. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• Michael Simkins (1)
  • IN: Lucky Break (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Advice to a young actor starting out. 'It's not fair, and don't be late.'
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK