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A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1600
That will ask some tears in the true performing of it: if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some measure.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker boasts that their performance will be so moving that the audience should be ready to cry. The grand promise gives the speech a comic air of self-confidence.
Sources (1)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Folger Shakespeare LibraryBottom, Act 1 Scene 2; Act 1, scene 2; FTLN0280–0283Reference checked
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