 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall, W. B. Worthen - Drama - 2006 - 218 pages
...get out until we'd solved this problem^) Sitting on the edge of the box, he addressed the audience: "I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world" — the opening of Richard's fifth-act soliloquy, continuing through "Yet I'll hammer it out," then... | |
 | Karolina Lanckoronska - History - 2008 - 377 pages
...entry reads: Lwow, September, second year of war, 18 IX 1942: I have been studying how I may compare12 This prison where I live unto the world: And for because...creature but myself, I cannot do it: yet I'll hammer 't out. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, My soul the father: and these two beget A generation... | |
 | Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 6 pages
...the kind of access they give us to characters might be discussed in relation to Richard II's speech 'I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world' (5.5.1-2): Richard's first and only soliloquy in the play is also the prelude to his death, as if the... | |
 | Jennifer C. Vaught - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...of escape is imaginative, depicts his private cell as a microcosm of the public domain beyond it: 1 have been studying how I may compare This prison where...is populous And here is not a creature but myself, 1 cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. (Vv1-5) He compares the interior setting of his cell to the... | |
 | Edward Morgan Forster - Books - 2008 - 496 pages
...I've been thinking a good deal about prisons lately. You remember how Richard II says in Shakespeare: 'I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world'2 Well, I've been studying how to compare the world3 I live in to a prison. I've been wondering... | |
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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... 
