the play's the thing

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Roget 599: fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Lat.] [Petronius Arbiter]; suit the action to the word, the word to the suit the action to the word, the word to the action" [Hamlet]; the play's the thing" [Hamlet]; to wake the soul by tender strokes of art" [Pope].

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