| Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...distinctive humor at all. It is as if Petruchio has solved the problem Othello describes as the curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites. (3.3.268-70) We may not believe Kate's private capitulation here — or later in her famous public... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 336 pages
...that's not much She's gone, I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, 270 That we can call these delicate creatures ours And...For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones, 275 Prerogativesl are they less than the base; Foote the speech is 'a mixture of deliberate reasoning... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1958 - 417 pages
...relief Must be to loathe her. O, curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours 300 And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And...great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base; 30S 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. Even then this forked plague is fated to us When we do quicken.... | |
| John Palmer (Jun.) - Fiction - 2005 - 208 pages
...harangue, and having entreated his 'Squire to act up to what he professed, left him. Oh, the curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures...dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For other's use. SHAKESPEARE. Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible,... | |
| Jean Elizabeth Howard, Marion F. O'Connor - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 312 pages
...human, as opposed to bestial, identity as depending on property rights, on absolute ownership: O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures...appetites! I had rather be a toad. And live upon the vapour in a dungeon, Than keep a corner in a thing I love, For others' uses: (III. iii. 271-6) But opposed... | |
| Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...years, - yet that's not much She's gone. I am abused; and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! (HI. iii. 263-70) The symbol of spiritual union has become to him a creature of sensual appetite. At... | |
| Kenneth Burke - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 329 pages
...meet with Cassio. Left alone this time, Othello muses on the problems of his sweet property: O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures...keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. (272-77) And as Iago had previously told Roderigo that "they say base men being in love have then a... | |
| Jennifer Mulherin, William Shakespeare, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 164 pages
...thing he does With Cassio's suit. Tlierefore be merry, Cassio; Act HI Sciii Jealousy stirs O curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures...be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Tlian keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. Act iii Sciii Othello demands proof By the... | |
| Y. York - Jealousy - 2006 - 60 pages
...and my relief will be to loathe an absent wife. Who's to blame? Othello?! No. O curse of marriage. I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapour of...keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses.] (DESDEMONA enters.) If she be false, heaven mocks itself. I'll not believe it.] (Or Rap 5.) DESDEMONA.... | |
| Robin Headlam Wells, Johnjoe McFadden - Social Science - 2006 - 220 pages
...he had no cause for jealousy because Desdemona 'had eyes and chose me', he now echoes lago: O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites. (3.3.267-74) There run two common threads in Brabanzio's, lago's and Othello's beliefs - first, that... | |
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