 | Janine Barchas - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 320 pages
...Shakespeare again appears here. This time the quoted passage is from Richard II, Act v, scene v: "The Brain I'll prove the Female to my Soul! / My Soul the Father; and thefe two beget / A Generation offtill Breeding Thoughts, / And thefefame Thoughts people this little... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...imprisoned by his cousin Bolingbroke, the ruined king, shortly before his murder, looks within himself: I have been studying how I may compare This prison...two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts. (5.5.1-8) Much of the difference between the two passages has to do with the very different characters:... | |
 | Royal Shakespeare Company - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 250 pages
...He finished with 'Yet I'll hammer it 10 Samuel West as King Richard II, Richard II, Act v, Scene v: 'I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world.' out' (vv-5), and went off to the Swan the next day to do exactly that as Henry IV. I was underneath... | |
 | Adam Smyth - Design - 2004 - 284 pages
...his fate: to find some semblance of consolation amid his bondage— like Shakespeare's Richard II, "studying how I may compare /This prison where I live unto the world." Prisoners find comfort not through any vision of o / release, but rather by converting the condition... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Performing Arts - 2011 - 355 pages
...become slaves to fortune (continued) 209 Richard II ACT 5. sc. 5 rScene 51 Enter Richard alone. RICHARD I have been studying how I may compare This prison...but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. 5 My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul the father, and these two beget A generation of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Performing Arts - 2011 - 355 pages
...fortune's slaves: ie, to become slaves to fortune (continued) rScene 51 Enter Richard alone. RICHARD I have been studying how I may compare This prison...but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. 5 My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul the father, and these two beget A generation of... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - Drama - 2005 - 658 pages
...lonesom Prison to the populous World, The Paradox seems hard; but thus I'll prove it, I'll call my Brain the Female to my Soul; My Soul the Father, and these Two beget A Generation of succeeding Thoughts, 10 Th' Inhabitants that stock this little World In humours like the People of... | |
 | Kathy Elgin - Crime - 2005 - 36 pages
...to the nearest city for trial. I take it, by all voices, that forthwith You be convey d to the Tower I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world ... RICHARD II, ACT 5, SCENE 5 Some of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure takes place in a grim prison,... | |
 | John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...implications taken on through scholastic usage even, evidently as late as Descartes. Richard's 'cause' is 'how I may compare/ This prison where I live unto the world'. Shakespeare's 'cause' is more complex. Preparing his protagonist to meet death, Shakespeare attempts... | |
 | Thomas Page Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...on the necessity and the difficulty of constructing a metaphor that aptly describes his condition: I have been studying how I may compare This prison...but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. (5.4.1-5) His desire to "hammer" out metaphors to describe his condition underscores the distorting... | |
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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... 
