 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...his various accomplishments with increasing conf1dence : Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry ' Content ! ' to that which grieves my heart. And wet my cheeks with artif1cial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. . . . I can add colours to the chameleon. Change... | |
 | Susan Howe - Poets, American - 1985 - 146 pages
...around him. Like an actor, writer, artist -like Proteus: Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile: And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart;...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colours to the cameleon; Change shapes with Proteus, for advantages, And set the... | |
 | Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott - Social Science - 1989 - 264 pages
...qualities appropriate to Machiavelli's and modern society: Why I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart And...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.... I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like... | |
 | Ronald L. Dotterer - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 252 pages
...primarily a stage for displays of personal perversity: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. (Part 3. 3.2.182-85) Language is merely a wardrobe from which Richard can select the appropriate... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...another Clinias when he vaunts his actor's talent: "Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, / And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart,...with artificial tears, / And frame my face to all occasions" (3H6 3.2.182-85). His cohort in the next play of the tetralogy, Buckingham, shows that he... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown, ... Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, And cry, "Content," to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1995 - 388 pages
...gleeful fantasy of wickedness also has a Marlovian ring: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - Performing Arts - 1995 - 232 pages
...characters, he exploits the invisibility of his own interior. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry 'Content!' to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 364 pages
...Richard, "And seem a saint, when most I play the devil": Why, I can sm1le, and murder while I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artif1cial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. 28 When Richard is pictured as (merely) a "diffus'd... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...Renaissance writers typically used to describe actors: Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my heart,...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the... | |
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Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. 
