 Into this breathing world scarce 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...  The Sewanee Review - Page 3411902Full view - About this book
 | Mary Ayers - Attachment behavior - 2003 - 260 pages
...delight to pass away the time. Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore. since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain...well,spoken days. I am determined to prove a villain. And not the idle pleasures of these days. tShakespeare. quoted by Lansky. 1995: 1079l Although in shame... | |
 | James E. Hirsh - English drama - 2003 - 474 pages
...Richard comments on his "deformity" (27) and cites it as the cause of his unscrupulous activities: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. It is conceivable that a deformed person might react with bitterness and anger to his deformity, and... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...defiantly overcompensatory gesture, Richard moves to the other extreme: villain rather than lover. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. (1.1. 28-3 1)5 This rhetorical trick is typical of Richard: he presents alternatives which are extreme.... | |
 | Royal Shakespeare Company - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 250 pages
...and out of empathy with and for Richard. With this sense of immediacy in mind, for example, the lines I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days (1.1.30-1) work, unavoidably, on both levels: first, that of the onstage action that the audience is... | |
 | Christopher Booker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 748 pages
...delight to pass away the time Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair, well spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain.' Richard III, il When we hear these words spoken... | |
 | James Zager, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 70 pages
...delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...the King In deadly hate the one against the other. [Music Plays] (The center special fades and houselights go out as RICHARD exits. The lights change... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass" (I, i, 14-15). And he goes on, at line 28, to say this: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain...the king In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous, This day should Clarence... | |
 | Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 pages
...delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Elizabethan audiences expected Richard to be wicked: to them, he was the king who murdered his way... | |
 | Dimitrije E. Panfilov - Medical - 2005 - 232 pages
...delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain...villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days." Martin Kahleyss analyses the sociopsychological polarization of traditional medicine between the terms... | |
 | John S. Mackenzie - Philosophy - 2005 - 493 pages
...that "Fortune favours fools." No one can find any fault » Cf. Shakespeare's King Richard III. .— " And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain...prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these day&* with one who has "no character at all."* On the other hand, one who has great strength of character... | |
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