 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  The Plays of William Shakespeare ... - Pagina 61door William Shakespeare - 1800Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 284 pagina’s
...Othello's 'we' and 'ours', men feel jealous of whatever in female appetite is beyond their sole possessing ('I had rather be a toad / And live upon the vapour...Than keep a corner in the thing I love / For others' uses' [3.3.274-^7]), and jealous also because men are inevitably excluded from experiencing a woman's... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 196 pagina’s
...'goat' (m, iii, 180). "Goats and monkeys!" he exclaims in a fit of jealousy (iv, i, 264).8 He says he "had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapour of a dungeon" than be cuckolded (m, iii, 270). He compares Desdemona to "a cistern for foul toads to knot and gender in"... | |
 | W. T. Lhamon - 2003 - 492 pagina’s
...glass and find it so, Jist what de Gypsy told me, oh. In Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor says he would "rather be a toad / And live upon the vapour of a dungeon" (3.3.270-271). Dowling omits this image. But Rice restores it with the outrageous slant pun — dungeon:demijohn.... | |
 | Steven Croft - 2004 - 84 pagina’s
...feelings about himself His attitude to marriage Language What effects are created by the following image: I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses, (fines 267-70)? Make a list of other words used in the soliloquy which express Othello's negative... | |
 | Andrew Milner - 2005 - 356 pagina’s
...madness (with cultural studies cast as Cordelia); more Othello's (with literature as Desdemona): ... I had rather be a toad. And live upon the vapour of...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. (Shakespeare, Othello, III, iii, 270-3) Bennett's Outside Literature is almost the theoretical... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - 2010 - 291 pagina’s
...of jealousy as living within an imprisoning miasma: I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. (3.3.270-73) Air takes on liquid properties in such figurations. Othello's later trope (in 4.2.61-62)... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - 2004 - 212 pagina’s
...I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. Oh curse of marriage, 265 That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad 268 vapour stinking air 270 the plague to great ones ie having an unfaithful wife 271 Prerogatived... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pagina’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!...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base; 'Tis destiny unshunnable,... | |
 | John Palmer (Jun.) - 2005 - 208 pagina’s
...'Squire to act up to what he professed, left him. Oh, the curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites....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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1958 - 417 pagina’s
...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...Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base; 30S 'Tis destiny... | |
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