 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...as a protest against his wife's destruction. But it is too late; the assertive and lively woman who "is fair, feeds well, loves company, / Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well" has disappeared, along with the troublesome contradictions of the heroics of marriage. Her chastity... | |
 | Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...contingent reward of merit. At first he resists this temptation: 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of...doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes and chose me. (3.3. '85-9') In seeing Othello's "visage in his mind" rather than his face (1.3.252), Desdemona provides... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - Drama - 2014 - 330 pages
...obsessed with bloated, fly-blown suspicions such as you are on about. It doesn't To say my wife is fair, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and...virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw 215 The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes and chose me. No, lago, I'll see before... | |
 | Timothy Murray - Art - 1997 - 324 pages
...seem a school" (IILiii.24). In the thoughts of Othello, moreover, she plays in her housewifery: "my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, / Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances" (IIL iii. 184-85). Throughout the play's action in Cyprus, Othello readily confuses Desdemona's generic... | |
 | John Seely, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of...had eyes, and chose me. No lago, I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; lago says he now feels free to warn Othello to watch his wife. He does... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No, to be once in doubt, Is to be resolv'd ... Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest...had eyes, and chose me. No, lago, I'll see before I doubt, when I doubt, prove, And on the proof, there is no more but this: Away at once with love or... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...spat out and flyblown (ie, disgusting) speculations, (2) inflated and blown abroad (rumored) notions Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from...will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, iss For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago; I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; 190 And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 196 pages
...such exsufflicate and blown surmises 185 Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of...virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw 190 The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes and chose me. No, lago, I'll see before... | |
 | Mary Floyd-Wilson - Drama - 2003 - 280 pages
...of a Corvino or Thorello or Leontes, Othello insists that . . .Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company. Is free of...dances well. Where virtue is, these are more virtuous (3- 3- 187-90) Unlike the innately suspicious lago, it is Othello's impulse to trust Desdemona's loving... | |
 | Sharon Hamilton - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 196 pages
...first, Othello resists the terrible suggestion by means of logic: 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous [III. iii. 183-86]. Besides, he reasons, "she had eyes, and... | |
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Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;... 
