 | Edward Timms - History - 1989 - 464 pages
...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. For I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight...shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity. Schlegel's translation of these lines is assimilated almost imperceptibly into Kraus's monologue, so... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...halt by them — Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, 25 Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, 30 And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 pages
...breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them — Why I, in this weak piping time of...shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity. (1.1.16-27) Generations of readers have been strongly affected by this relation between the deformity... | |
 | Leo Perutz - Fiction - 1994 - 172 pages
...ears. "Stop! You make me feel ill." But Dr Gorski was not to be put off so easily. "Why I, in this piping time of peace Have no delight to pass away...deformity. And therefore - since I cannot prove a lover I? "And I'm determined to wring your neck if you don't stop," Eugen Bischoff declared threateningly.... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity:...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain . . . (I. i. 18-30) Whatever the precise provenance of this bold opening scene, Shakespeare must have... | |
 | Pasquale Memmolo - European drama - 1995 - 364 pages
...konsequenten Aufstand gegen alles Positive in der Welt, wie aus dem Eingangsmonolog Richards zu entnehmen ist Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, 120 Wichtig sind Polydore Vergils "Anglica Historia" (1516 abgeschlossen, ab 1534 veröffentlicht)... | |
 | John Julius Norwich - History - 2001 - 438 pages
...breathing world scarce half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain . . . KING RICHARD III King Richard III, the only English ruler since the Norman Conquest to have been... | |
 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...father's death. Since peace has robbed Richard of his identity he will entirely refashion himself: I in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24-30) To achieve that end, he is endowed with several of the author's own attributes, such... | |
 | Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - Philosophy - 2000 - 362 pages
...clear: Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity....well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24— 30) 18. On Henry's skillful theatricality in this scene, see Graham Bradshaw, Misrepresentations:... | |
 | Carol Rawlings Miller - Education - 2001 - 84 pages
...breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of...shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: describe at length And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken... | |
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