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" O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others "
A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysis - Page 45
by William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 432 pages
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Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century

Joanna Gondris - Editing - 1998 - 428 pages
...in lago's lies about Desdemona, laments the fate of all great men who have unfaithful wives: O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! . . . Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones; Prerogativ'd are they less than the base: Tis destiny unshunnable,...
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Constructions of the Classical Body

James I. Porter - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...West 1978 adduces parallels ad Hes. Op. 700-705. See also Detienne 1977, 120. Cf. Othello: "O curse of marriage, that we can call / These delicate creatures ours / And not their appetites!" (3.3.268) 17. A man and woman in Theocritos debate this fear (27.27-28). 18. On oiOipoooi)vr), see...
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On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and ...

Michael Batterberry, Ariane Ruskin Batterberry - Amusements - 1999 - 416 pages
...dyspepsia and envious of the digestion of the gentle Desdemona, when he exclaimed — — oh curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! Throughout the nineteenth century, a woman had to eat hearty to maintain a rounded silhouette; Englishmen...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
..."expressing reprobation or contempt" (3.c), which is how Othello employs the term when he exclaims "O curse of marriage! / That we can call these delicate creatures ours, / And not their appetites!" (3.3.267-69). Significantly, the next direct reference to Desdemona further demotes her to the status...
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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Othello

John Seely, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...of 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...a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love 270 For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones, Prerogatived are they less than the base;...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...terrifying to him than the (supposed) certainty of knowing the worst. For Othello it is the 'curse of marriage, | That we can call these delicate creatures ours | And not their appetites' (3. 3. 272-4). What cannot be seen — the thoughts, the feelings, the 'appetites' of another person...
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William Shakespeare: Othello

Nick Potter, Nicholas Potter - Drama - 2000 - 198 pages
...following Start of violent Passion. She's gone! I am abused! And my Relief Must be to loath her! O Curse of Marriage! That we can call these delicate Creatures ours. And not their Appetites! [III, iii, 271ff.] What follows in a quicker, contemptuous Tone. I'd rather be a Toad, And live upon...
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Writing Prejudices: The Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy of Discrimination from ...

Robert Samuels - Psychology - 2001 - 210 pages
...theory that mimics the theatrical interplay between different characters and ideas. marriage: "O curse of marriage, / That we can call these delicate creatures ours, / And not their appetites!" (3.3.274-76). In this passage, Othello highlights the difference between the social control of the...
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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, 270 And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love 273 For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague...
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Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England

Natasha Korda - Drama - 2002 - 304 pages
...threatens the privilege of exclusive ownership over wives as well.90 "O curse of marriage," Othello mourns, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And...great ones, Prerogatived are they less than the base. (3. 3. 272-78) Othello here gives voice to the anxiety that subtends what contemporary legal theorists...
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