 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 236 pages
...articulate interior thought and emotion. The tone is self-descriptive and explanatory almost throughout: I have been studying how I may compare This prison...here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it (v, v, 1-5) There is a moment of anguished immediacy, of present-time union between the inner wish... | |
 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...Richard is doing thinking; he becomes a thinker. He cannot act anymore; he has no choice. He can reflect: "My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, / My soul...two beget / A generation of still-breeding thoughts" (5.5.6—8). Richard begins to populate his own world with thoughts; this will be his world from now... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...what follows. Shakespeare regularly used 'beget' in a semi-parental sense, as at Richard II, vv 6: My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul...two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts . . . In Phoenix-and-Turtle poems the loved one is Phoenix and the poet Turtle-dove, in a kind of male-female... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...nor Brutus has had to encounter a similar conceptual difficulty in their moments of introspection: I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world or, Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. (2.1.61) These are apparently... | |
 | Nicholas Grene - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...world with its props and trappings are gone from Richard, we have whole fantasias of the interior: I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world ... (5 .5. '-2) With Bull1ngbrook there is one glimpse of him as frazzled father of an adolescent -... | |
 | George Steiner - Philosophy - 2002 - 354 pages
...prior to visible, audible phenomenologies. Shakespeare's Richard II, as we saw, puts it memorably: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but my self, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...poetic creation, turns them to 'shapes'. And this is the exact equivalent of the passage in Richard II: My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul the father. Moreover, Richard explicitly tells us that his thoughts people this little world In humours like the... | |
 | Jane Polden - History - 2002 - 385 pages
...of the self. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, [says Shakespeare's imprisoned Richard II] My soul the father, and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts.19 This mingling of contrasexual elements may be a model for creative self-fulfilment not... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...articulate interior thought and emotion. The tone is self-descriptive and explanatory almost throughout: I have been studying how I may compare This prison...here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. ... (v, v, 1-5) There is a moment of anguished immediacy, of present-time union between the inner wish... | |
 | Lloyd Davis - Drama - 2003 - 344 pages
...who were interested (and that was nearly everyone) Richard II's soliloquy on solitary confinement: "I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world" (5.5.1-2). The next day, Don reported that a heated debate had taken place that evening among several... | |
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I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world : And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it ; — yet I'll hammer 't out. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My... 
