| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 páginas
...They lose it that do buy it with much care ; Believe me, you are marvellously chang'd. ANT. 1 hold 'st, with peril And mine a sad one. GBA. Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And... | |
| Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 páginas
...within which to consider the contrasting speech habits (or silence) of the mundane players: Ant. I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. Gra. Let me play the fool, With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, . . .... | |
| Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 páginas
...prefixed to his Apology for Actors. Heywood begins with a conventional description of the theatrum mundi: "The world's a Theater, the earth a Stage, / Which God, and nature doth with Actors fill." But his real purpose is to defend the playhouse, not to describe the cosmos, so he concludes by reversing... | |
| Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 páginas
...enters with Gratiano, who also joins the conversation, only to receive the following response: "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, / A stage, where every man must play a part, / And mine a sad one." (Li .77-79). To this piece of unsubstantiated melancholia Gratiano replies tactlessly... | |
| Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 páginas
...the moral code of his time — he cannot realize his love for Bassanio).107 Antonio replies: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (1.1.77-79) In contrast to the interpreters of Shakespeare, Gratiano, I believe,... | |
| Jeffrey H. Richards, Professor of Theatre Jeffrey H Richards - 1991 - 368 páginas
...melancholiac, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (1 596), begins the play trapped by his metaphor: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (1. 1.76-78) Stripped of its theological context, the orthodox or conservative... | |
| Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 páginas
...and destroy, the arts of acting and imitation proper, The Author to his Book1 The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God, and nature, doth with actors fill, Kings have their entrance with due equipage, And some their parts play well and others ill, The best... | |
| Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 páginas
...through his self-consciousness about his assigned role and his willingness to play it: I hold this world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (MV 1.1.77-79) Later at the trial, while Shylock sharpens his knife, Antonio accepts... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 páginas
...They lose it that do buy it with much care: Believe me, you are marvellously changed. ANTONIO. I hold X è "J 1996 Wordsworth Editions"- Shakespeare William" Wil And mine a sad one. GRATIANO. Let me play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come;... | |
| Andrew M. Kirk - 1996 - 242 páginas
...History, pp. 146-200. Chapter Three Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris: Theatrical History, Theatrical Kings The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature doth with actors fill: Kings have their entrance in due equipage, And some their parts play well, and others ill. Thomas Hey... | |
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