 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 415 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 356 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused.... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 232 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature - change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 865 Seiten
...flowers (IV, iv, 87-88) while Polixenes suggests that the influence of humanity can improve nature's art: This is an art Which does mend Nature — change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (IV, iv, 95-97) Later we recall this judgment. Perdita distributes flowers to the... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 403 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature - change it rather; but The art itself is nature. (4.4.90-7) The relevance of his remarks to the actual dramatic situation is apparent,... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 557 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt... | |
 | L. T. Evans, Lloyd T. Evans, Evans, Lloyd Thomas Evans - 1998 - 247 Seiten
...Tale, when Perdita spurns the hybrid carnations 'which some call nature's bastards', Polixenes replies 'This is an art which does mend nature - change it rather - but the art itself is nature'. In early maize crops that art was indeed natural, given both the openpollinated... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (IV.iv.88) The image that Polixenes uses to explain the relationship between nature... | |
 | John London - 2000 - 356 Seiten
...extolling the art of marrying 'a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind / By bud of nobler race. This is an art / Which...does mend Nature - change it, rather - but / The art itself, is Nature' (ll. 93-7). Without a doubt, Shakespeare's play reverberates with murky suspicions... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 414 Seiten
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature. The context, it is generally conceded, lends Shakespeare's support to Polixenes'... | |
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But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art... 
