What does Shakespeare's Hamlet mean when he says the following? "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."
A) "I want you players to speak loudly and clearly and overemphasize your words just like a town crier."
B) "I want you to pronounce your words just like a town crier would pronounce these words."
C) "I would rather have you speak honestly and believably than just shouting the lines out loud."
D) None of these answers is correct.
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