 | Ewan Fernie - Drama - 2002 - 292 pages
...suddenly overwhelmed by pathological humiliation: Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Plucks my beard and blows it in my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th'throat As deep as to the lungs — who does me this? (2.2.567-70) The answer to this question... | |
 | James E. Hirsh - English drama - 2003 - 474 pages
...person many people (31) Something similar occurs in a very long soliloquy by Hamlet: Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Plucks...my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? (2.2.571-75) Who indeed? Surely not some irate... | |
 | Hilaire Kallendorf - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...aloud, asking who is responsible for the symptoms (classic signs of demonic possession) that he feels: Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Plucks...my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as the lungs? Who does me this?219 One answer for the confused early modern self... | |
 | Jeremy Lopez - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 251 pages
.... speak / With most miraculous organ" (lines 546-7). Upbraiding himself for his cowardice, he asks, "Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, / Plucks...off my beard and blows it in my face, / Tweaks me by th' nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat / As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?", and laments... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across. Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face, 600 Tweaks me by th' nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...and selfdramatisation. when Hamlet imagines himself interacting with an antagonist: Am I a coward? Who calls me villain. breaks my pate across. Plucks...my face. Tweaks me by the nose. gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as to the lungs? (II. ii. 571-5) We have come a long way in a short time: from the... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...which the prince indulges an almost masochistic role of a coward answering the taunts of his accusers: Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across. Plucks...in my face. Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th'throat As deep as the lungs — who does me this? (2.2.567-70) In fact Hamlet not so much castigates... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...imagining himself passively as the object of another's scornful breath in the second soliloquy — who "plucks off my beard and blows it in my face, / Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th'throat / As deep as to the lungs?" (2.2.573-75) — to rebuking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made: am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Plucks...in my face Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th'throat As deep as to the lungs — who does me this, Ha, 'swounds, I should take it: for it cannot... | |
 | Karen Newman - Comedy - 2005 - 176 pages
...not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life 565 A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Plucks...in my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th' throat As deep as to the lungs - who does me this ? 570 Ha! 'Swounds, I should take it: for it... | |
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A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? 
