 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 Seiten
...Shakespeare intend by, ACTING IN SHAKESPEARE 87 I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shalt not die; die for adultery? No, The wren...and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight. [End of line] Does it matter? What it demonstrates is that Shakespeare's prose is often as rhythmic... | |
 | 1984 - 456 Seiten
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 | Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 Seiten
...Gloucester is accordingly forgiven his adultery, sexual sins being now considered a part of natural order: "die for adultery? No! / The wren goes to't and the.../ Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive" (4.6.1 10-12). However, in some respects Lear's moral problems remain unresolved, with his evaluations... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 Seiten
...that admission gives way to verse, to a Royal dignity and to an intense but distorted moral authority: Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No, The wren...Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets. Lear's... | |
 | Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 Seiten
...denies the existence of human love : he sees animal lechery as man's controlling emotion: Thou si ii 1 1 not die : die for adultery ! No : The wren goes to't,...Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive ; for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets. To't,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 344 Seiten
...stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shall not die. Die for adultery? No, The wren goes to't,...Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive: for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets. To't,... | |
 | B. Ifor Evans - 2005 - 216 Seiten
...found in Lear's lines to Gloucester: I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shall not die: die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight. In complete and supremely pathetic contrast is Lear's monosyllabic tenderness and sincerity as he recognises... | |
 | ICON Reference - 2006 - 188 Seiten
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Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. — What was thy cause? — Adultery? — Thou shalt not die : die for adultery ! No : The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight.... 
