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32. )So this friend of all the world may be accused of inhumanity andmisrule. The charge is plausible. Shakespeare could not here forgetthat at the proscription, Lepidus is represented as acquiescing in thedeath of his own brother-in-law to secure the death of Antony’s nephew. Still his alleged cruelty may only have be... |
38. )But when this is his fixed determination, why make the marriage at all? Does he fail to see that it will bring not peace but a sword? Yet heis so hood-winked by immediate opportunism that he bears his share inmaking Pompey harmless to the mighty brother-in-law he is just aboutto offend. And knowing his own heart a... |
Shakespeare, therefore, gives her a new dignityand strength even in this most equivocal scene; and how could these bereconciled with a craven hankering for life and a base desire to retainby swindling a share of its gewgaws? But a further alteration, we are told, gives a definite thoughunobtrusive hint that all the whi... |
_Universal Review, 1889. _This theory, however, in all its varieties seems to attribute toodefinite an influence to the controversies of the hour, and toturn Shakespeare too much into the politician prepense. Certainly_Coriolanus_ is not meant to be a constitutional manifesto; probablyit does not, even at unawares, ide... |
_Ædile. _ I have; ’tis ready. _Sicinius. _ Have you collected them by tribes? _Ædile. _ I have. (III. iii. 8. )Above all, the accusations brought against Coriolanus, in Shakespeare,are substantially just. He may not seek to wind himself i... |
Beyond some naturally bitter gibes at the “clusters” and their leaders,not unaccompanied for the rest by bitter outbursts against themselves,there is no trace of the dissensions with the people which Plutarchdescribes. But they have no thought of organising any attempt atresistance. True, there are circumstances in Sha... |
i. 113. )That being so, he regards it as a kind of treason to the constitutionto pay court to the plebs, or let it have a share of the government. He sayed they nourished against them selves, the naughty seede and cockle of insolencie and sedition, which had bene sowed and scattered abroade emongest the people... |
iii. 40. )How could this man, whose personal pride and family pride areso interwoven, whose self-love and whose virtues are so much aninheritance of his line, ever hope to sever himself from what makes uphis very being? The home instincts must triumph. It is well that they should, and this is the redeeming touch thatca... |
οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε καὶ τῇ πατρίδι νίκην ἅμα καὶ σοὶσωτηρίαν αἰτεῖσθαι παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, ἀλλ’ ἅ τις ἄν ἡμῖν καταράσαιτο τῶνἐχθρῶν, ταῦτα ταῖς ἡμετέραις ἔνεστιν εὐχαῖς. ἀνάγκη γὰρ ἢ τῆς πατρίδοςἢ σου στέρεσθαι γυναικὶ σῇ καὶ τέκνοις. ἐγὼ δ’ οὐ περιμένω ταύτην μοιδιαιτῆσαι τὴν τύχην ζώσῃ τὸν πόλεμον· ἀλλ’ εἰ μή σε πείσαιμι φιλία... |
Dowden (Professor Edward), _Shakespeare’s Mind and Art_, 214. Drayton (Michael), _Mortimeriados_ or _The Barons’ War_, 169. Dryden (John), on Plutarch, 106; _Life of Plutarch_, 110; _All for Love_ or _The World Well Lost_, 256, 340. _Eccerinis_, by Mussato, 11. Eedes (Dr. ), lost Latin play, 180. ... |
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Again, if we confine our attention to the hero, and to those cases wherethe gross and palpable evil is not in him but elsewhere, we find thatthe comparatively innocent hero still shows some marked imperfection ordefect,--irresolution, precipitancy, pride, credulousness, excessivesimplicity, excessive susceptibility to ... |
Thetwo may be severed, but they need not be so, and where a genuinelypoetic result is being produced they cannot be so. The glow of a firstconception must in some measure survive or rekindle itself in the workof planning and executing; and what is called a technical expedient may'come' to a man with as sudden a glory a... |
' And Professor Dowdenexplains this condition by reference to Hamlet's life. 'When the playopens he has reached the age of thirty years . . . and he has receivedculture of every kind except the culture of active life. During thereign of the strong-willed elder Hamlet there was no call to action forhis meditative son. H... |
He at any rate will not delay. Onthe spot he determines to send Hamlet to England. But, as Polonius ispresent, we do not learn at once the meaning of this purpose. Evening comes. The approach of the play-scene raises Hamlet's spirits. He is in his element. He feels that he is doing _something_ towards hisend, striking ... |
She gives her husband afalse account of Polonius's death, and is silent about the appearance ofthe Ghost. She becomes miserable; To her sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. She shows spirit when Laertes raises the mob, and one respects her forstanding up for her husba... |
But he was newly married; in the circumstanceshe cannot have known much of Desdemona before his marriage; and furtherhe was conscious of being under the spell of a feeling which can giveglory to the truth but can also give it to a dream. (3) This consciousness in any imaginative man is enough, in suchcircumstances, to ... |
Why did he act as we see him actingin the play? What is the answer to that appeal of Othello's: Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body? This question Why? is _the_ question about Iago, just as the questionWhy did Hamlet delay? is _the_ question about Hamlet. Iago ref... |
When Lamb--there is no higherauthority--writes, 'A happy ending! --as if the living martyrdom thatLear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make afair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him,'I answer, first, that it is precisely this _fair_ dismissal which wedesire for ... |
But on the way he has broken down and has been weeping (III. iv. 17),and now he resists Kent's efforts to persuade him to enter. He does notfeel the storm: when the mind's free The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats... |
Lear's words, Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her! [183]are monstrously unjust, but they contain one grain of truth; and indeedit was scarcely possible that a nature so strong as Cordelia's, and withso keen a sense of dignity, should feel here nothing whatever of prideand resentment. This side of her ch... |
In either case not only was he free toaccept or resist the temptation, but the temptation was already withinhim. We are admitting too much, therefore, when we compare him withOthello, for Othello's mind was perfectly free from suspicion when histemptation came to him. And we are admitting, again, too much when weuse th... |
The noises before the murder, and duringit, are heard by her as simple facts, and are referred to their truesources. The knocking has no mystery for her: it comes from 'the southentry. ' She calculates on the drunkenness of the grooms, compares thedifferent effects of wine on herself and on them, and listens to theirsn... |
43); and the Porter's remarks about theequivocator who 'could swear in both the scales against either scale,who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate toheaven,' may be compared with the following dialogue (IV. ii. 45): _Son. _ What is a traitor? _Lady Macduff. _ Why, one t... |
_ V. iii. 40 (Warburton). (7) With Pyrrhusstanding like a painted tyrant cf. _Macb. _ V. viii. 25 (Delius). (8) Theforging of Mars's armour occurs again in _Tr. and Cr. _ IV. v. 255, whereHector swears by the forge that stithied Mars his helm, just as Hamlethimself alludes to Vulcan's stithy (III. ii. 89). (9) The idea... |
We must not suppose that Othello's account of his courtship in hisfamous speech before the Senate is intended to be exhaustive. He isaccused of having used drugs or charms in order to win Desdemona; andtherefore his purpose in his defence is merely to show that hiswitchcraft was the story of his life. It is no part of ... |
; II. ii. , except 194-204; in III. vi. Timon's verse speech; IV. i. ; IV. ii. 1-28; IV. iii. , except292-362, 399-413, 454-543; V. i. , except 1-50; V. ii. ; V. iv. I am notto be taken as accepting this division throughout. ]NOTE T. DID SHAKESPEARE SHORTEN _KING LEAR_? I have remarked in the text (pp. 256 ff. ) on the... |
_ 'Tis most convenient: pray you, go with us. _Gon. _ [_Aside_] O, ho, I know the riddle. --I will go. _As they are going out, enter_ EDGAR _disguised. _ _Edg. _ If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor, Hear me one word. _Alb. _ I'll overtake you. Speak.... |
63 | 2. 47 | 6. 10Henry VIII. , | 45 | 37 | 3. 93 | 3. 23 | 7. 16------------------------------------------------------------------------Now, let us turn to our four tragedies (with _Timon_). Here again wehave one doubtful play, and I give the figures for the whole of _Timon_,and... |
_3 Henry VI. _, 222, 418, 490, 492. _Henry VIII. _, 80, 472, 479. Heredity, 30, 266, 303. Hero, tragic, 7; of 'high degree,' 9-11; contributes to catastrophe, 12; nature of, 19-23, 37; error of, 21, 34; unlucky, 28; place of, in construction, 53-55; absence of, from stage, 57; in earlier and later plays, 81-2, ... |
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Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove: Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee. XIAs fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st,In one of thine, from that which thou departest;And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow... |
let my looks be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast,Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express’d. O! learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit. XXIVMine eye hath play’d the painter and hath stell... |
XXXVIIAs a decrepit father takes delightTo see his active child do deeds of youth,So I, made lame by Fortune’s dearest spite,Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,Or any of these all, or all, or more,Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,I make my love engrafted, to thi... |
To side this title is impannelledA quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;And by their verdict is determinedThe clear eye’s moiety, and the dear heart’s part: As thus; mine eye’s due is thy outward part, And my heart’s right, thy inward love of heart. XLVIIBetwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,And each... |
let me suffer, being at your beck,The imprison’d absence of your liberty;And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,Without accusing you of injury. Be where you list, your charter is so strongThat you yourself may privilage your timeTo what you will; to you it doth belongYourself to pardon of self-doing crime. ... |
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,Beggar’d of blood to blush through lively veins? For she hath no exchequer now but his,And proud of many, lives upon his gains. O! him she stores, to show what wealth she had In days long since, before these last so bad. LXVIIIThus is his cheek the map of days outworn,Wh... |
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:In others’ works thou dost but mend the style,And arts with thy sweet graces graced be; But thou art all my art, and dost advance As high as learning, my rude ignorance. LXXIXWhilst I alone did call upon thy aid,My verse alone ha... |
LXXXIXSay that thou didst forsake me for some fault,And I will comment upon that offence:Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,Against thy reasons making no defence. Thou canst not love disgrace me half so ill,To set a form upon desired change,As I’ll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,I will acquaintance stran... |
Yet seem’d it winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. XCIXThe forward violet thus did I chide:Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,If not from my love’s breath? The purple prideWhich on thy soft cheek for complexion dwellsIn my love’s veins thou hast too grossly d... |
CVIIIWhat’s in the brain, that ink may character,Which hath not figur’d to thee my true spirit? What’s new to speak, what now to register,That may express my love, or thy dear merit? Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,I must each day say o’er the very same;Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,Eve... |
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never! How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,In the distraction of this madding fever! O benefit of ill! now I find trueThat better is, by evil still made better;And ruin’d love, when it is built anew,Grows fairer than a... |
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound:I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress, when she walks, tread... |
CXLBe wise as thou art cruel; do not pressMy tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;Lest sorrow lend me words, and words expressThe manner of my pity-wanting pain. If I might teach thee wit, better it were,Though not to love, yet love to tell me so,As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,No news but health fro... |
CLO! from what power hast thou this powerful might,With insufficiency my heart to sway? To make me give the lie to my true sight,And swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,That in the very refuse of thy deedsThere is such strength and warrantise of skill,That, in my m... |
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