 | Murray Cox - 1999 - 226 trang
...extenuates and justifies his choice of villainy in terms of his natural and acquired disadvantages: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain ... (I. i. 28- 30) The soliloquy suggests, in short, not only the freely-willed suppression of conscience... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 trang
...father's death. Since peace has robbed Richard of his identity he will entirely refashion himself: I in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight to...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24-30) To achieve that end, he is endowed with several of the author's own attributes, such... | |
 | John Julius Norwich - 2001 - 438 trang
...half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain . . . KING RICHARD III King Richard III, the only English ruler since the Norman Conquest to have been... | |
 | Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - 2000 - 362 trang
...clear: Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity....well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24— 30) 18. On Henry's skillful theatricality in this scene, see Graham Bradshaw, Misrepresentations:... | |
 | Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 trang
...alarums changed to merry meetings. Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. . . . 58 Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Richard, Richard III. 1, 1 Take-Away Ideas * The words we choose can add power to our communication.... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 38 trang
...plenty, and fair prosperous days! Act v Sc iv The play's characters Richard Richard's self-knowledge And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Act i Sc i Richard Shakespeare's original audience already knew what to expect when they first saw... | |
 | Carol Rawlings Miller - 2001 - 84 trang
...half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to...shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: describe at length And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 trang
...made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; — Why, I, in EARL OF SA inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 trang
...made "to court an amorous looking glass" and has "no delight to pass away the time," Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity....villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. (Ii 14-1 6, 25-31) Richard Ill's monologue is not unlike Adolf Hitler's speech to his General Staff... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 trang
...and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; Have no delight to pass away the time And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. (Li. 16-30) As in the defenses in the pamphlet controversy about women where men's misogyny is blamed... | |
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And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. 
