 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 174 pages
...a-fire, And then I'll speak a little. Cor. [After holding her by the hand, silent, .] O, mother, mother ! What have you done ? Behold the heavens do ope, The...look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother ! O ! 185 Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars, 190 I'll frame convenient peace.... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 ,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 kind of meeting or... | |
 | 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...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 of the market who,... | |
 | 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...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. A moment later... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...submission which is also a moment of self-examination and an acceptance of his fate. O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...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...it, O believe it! Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, 189 If not most mortal to him. But let it come. 190 Aufidius, though I cannot make true... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...attainment of his role. His final words to his mother speak not of love, but of fear: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...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... | |
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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... 
