| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick. Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...senses I'll restore. And they shall be themselves. (5.1.21-32) Even more telling than the renunciation of his anger, is the renunciation of his art, the... | |
| William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2002 - 280 pages
...struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is 35 In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent,...senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves. 40 ARIEL I'll fetch them, sir. He exits. ^Prospero draws a large circle on the stage with his staff."^... | |
| Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 pages
...(4.1.264-5). Yet, at the start of Act 5, in conversation with the spirit Ariel, Prospero declares, 'The rarer action is in virtue, than in vengeance....drift of my purpose doth extend / Not a frown further' (5.1.27-9). He moves the story from tragedy to comedy, from a story of death to a story of marriage,... | |
| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 236 pages
...Tempest, includes much that is self-descriptive ('Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, / Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury...The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance . . .' ([v, i, 25—8]). In any case there seems to me little question that it was in the Henry IV... | |
| William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...Outrun the pauser, reason. Macbeth — Macbeth II. Hi Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. Prospero — Tempest Vi Let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb... | |
| Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...understandable) bitterness and anger — and succeeding: Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. (5.1.25-28) But there is no indication that he is struggling to overcome incestuous desire for his... | |
| J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...them, they begin to repent. Prospero immediately calls off the tempest. It has done its work, . . . The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. They...a frown further. Go release them, Ariel. My charms 111 break, their senses 111 restore, And they shall be themselves. (Tempest V 1 27-32) 'And they shall... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 156 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. (5.L18-28) This speech may not be one to which Auden especially attended in "The Sea and the Mirror,"... | |
| Tom Kleffmann - Bible - 2004 - 178 pages
...unverkennbar christlicher bzw. biblischer Zug (V,l): 96 Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves. Obschon ihr Frevel tief ins Herz mir drang, Doch nehm ich gegen meine Wut Partei Mit meinem edlern... | |
| Fraser Watts, Liz Gulliford - Religion - 2004 - 226 pages
...and the 'Father forgive them' of the Passion narrative (Luke 23). See also the speech of Prospero: Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick...part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: (The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1) Thus far, forgiveness inhabits the 'higher plains' of virtue and, at... | |
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