 | Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 256 psl.
...speaks like another Clinias when he vaunts his actor's talent: "Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, / And cry "Content" to that which grieves...artificial tears, / And frame my face to all occasions" (3H6 3.2.182-85). His cohort in the next play of the tetralogy, Buckingham, shows that he too can set... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1995 - 388 psl.
...Gloucester's gleeful fantasy of wickedness also has a Marlovian ring: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 240 psl.
...learn of him. In relation to the other characters, he exploits the invisibility of his own interior. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk; [49] I'll... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 psl.
...sanctity. "I clothe my naked villany," says Richard, "And seem a saint, when most I play the devil": Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.28 When Richard is pictured as (merely) a "diffus'd infection of a man," his entire identity... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 364 psl.
...my naked villany," says Richard, "And seem a saint, when most I play the devil": Why, I can sm1le, and murder while I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artif1cial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. 28 When Richard is pictured as (merely) a "diffus'd... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon G. Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 psl.
...terms that Renaissance writers typically used to describe actors: Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murtherous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 psl.
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles think'st 3 I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk; I'll play... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 psl.
...he claims, lies in his total self-control; he is the master actor who can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'Content!' to that which grieves...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous... | |
 | Theodor Meron - 1998 - 360 psl.
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and mueder whiles I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves...artificial tears. And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk; I'll play... | |
 | William Luce - 1998 - 60 psl.
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile; And cry content to that which grieves my...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor; Deceive more... | |
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I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. 
