 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 576 pages
...afire, And then I'll speak a little. Car. O, mother, mother ' [Holding To tun. by the hands, siUnt. What have you done ? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother ! O ! You have won a happy victory to Borne : But, for your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1863 - 166 pages
...afire, And then I'll speak a little. Cor. O mother, mother ! [Holding VoLuMNIA by the hands, silent. What have you done ? Behold the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. О my mother, mother ! О ! You have won a happy victory to Rome : But, for your... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...death gives dignity to his yielding to the instinct he had professed to despise: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your son,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 430 pages
...Coriolanus's words of agony to his mother as he relents and "Holds her by the hand, silent." O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome ; But , for your... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...sees his mother's victory as a personal defeat from which only Rome will profit: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your son,... | |
 | Martin Scofield - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 280 pages
...and his humanity reasserts itself, as he responds to his mother's silent appeal: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold the heavens do ope. The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. (V.iii. 182-4) The statesman in Eliot's poem also appeals to a mother, for some... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...require his death, and he embraces that death with a passivity thoroughly uncharacteristic of him: O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your son, believe it, O, believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd, If not most mortal to... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...the gods he has tried to support, and from whom he has expected support in turn: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope. The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. (5.3.182) At what do the gods laugh? Partly at the spectacle of a noble opponent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 404 pages
...that they 'could not bear the unusual sight but turned away their eyes' (Bullough, They laugh at. 0 my mother, mother, O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your son, believe it, O believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Drama - 1997 - 294 pages
...spared Rome. Holding his mother "by the hand, silent," for a time, he bursts out, O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. (5.3.182) But the tragic recognition of his fate and its acceptance are only temporary.... | |
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O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your son— believe it, O, believe it!— Most dangerously... 
