I loved the maid I married ; never man Sigh'd truer breath ; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing ! more dances my rapt heart, Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. Trageies - Seite 354von William Shakespeare - 1866Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 Seiten
...Aufidius, the sometime enemy of Coriolanus, welcomes his heroic rival to his camp with the declaration, Know thou first, I lov'd the maid I married; never...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. [IV,v,106-l 111 On the other hand, a man's desire for a woman, unless carefully restrained, makes him... | |
| Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 Seiten
...spoke hath weeded from my heart A root of ancient envy . . . Let me twine My arms about that body . . . Know thou first, I lov'd the maid I married; never...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. (4.5.106-23) The greeting mirrors that of his aristocratic alter ego (cf. Coriolanus's welcome of Cominius... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 Seiten
...domestic code of heterosexual marriage. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here, Thou noble...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself... | |
| Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 Seiten
...and sensuality. Aufidius, after the speech made by Coriolanus, states, in the Shakespeare version: 'Know thou first, / I lov'd the maid I married; never...first my wedded mistress saw / Bestride my threshold' (4.5.113-118; all Shakespeare quotations are from Evans's The Riverside Shakespeare). The fifth scene... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 320 Seiten
...I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, 11o I loved the maid I married; never man Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here, Thou noble...Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars, I tell thee, 115 We have a power on foot, and I had purpose Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn Or lose mine... | |
| Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 Seiten
...sometime arch-enemy, deserts to the Volsces. Lest the force of Aufidius's comparison go unremarked ('that I see thee here, Thou noble thing, more dances...my wedded mistress saw | Bestride my threshold'), Aufidius's serving men comment on the spectacle: 'Our general himself makes a mistress of him' (4.5.116-19,... | |
| Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor - 2000 - 436 Seiten
...have motivated this inquiry from the start, Aufidius welcoming Coriolanus to the enemy camp: . . . that I see thee here, Thou noble thing, more dances...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. . . . Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters 'twixt... | |
| Kenneth Gross - 2001 - 304 Seiten
...clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold . . . . . . Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters... | |
| Pilar Hidalgo - 2001 - 168 Seiten
...especially in Aufidius' words when he becomes reconciled to Coriolanus: Know thou first, I lov'd the maid l married: never man Sigh'd truer breath: but that I...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. (4.5.ll4,l9) If Smith finds surprising in Shakespeare something that was to be expected in Plutarch,... | |
| Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - 2001 - 352 Seiten
...Aufidius embraces him with these words: Know thou first, I loved the maid 1 married; never man Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here, Thou noble...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. (4.5.1 12-17) Male homoerotic bonds are not always supported, however. In Twelfth Night and The Merchant... | |
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