 | Matthew Birchwood, Matthew Dimmock - Acculturation - 2005 - 250 pages
..."content so absolute" (II. i. 189) that it does not seem to require any addition; where he announces that "If it were now to die, / 'Twere now to be most happy" (II. i. 187-8). Hospitality is on the shore, therefore, where Desdemona calls for "more", for an impossible... | |
 | Patricia Parker - History - 2005 - 254 pages
...Othello" and Othello comes back with a heady burst of runover lines that climax in a fantasy of Liebestod: If it were now to die 'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort, like to this Succeeds in... | |
 | J. B. Leishman - Drama - 2005 - 264 pages
...let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high, and duck again as low As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy, for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in... | |
 | Herbert R. Coursen - Authors, American - 2005 - 138 pages
...through the full leaves of the August trees, I had felt a surge of joy. I thought of Othello's line — "If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy." A party in Edgeland at a house that overlooked a lake. We had walked down the sweetly-scented grass... | |
 | Diana E. Henderson - Drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...dramatic conventions: "she could remember going cold with excitement . . . leehng as she crossed the hall 'if it were now to die 'twere now to be most happy.' That was her feeling — Othello's feeling, and she felt it, she was convinced, as strongly as Shakespeare... | |
 | Qiu Xiaolong - Fiction - 2007 - 332 pages
...took up the magazine again. "When I first looked at the picture, it reminded me of several lines from Othello: 'If it were now to die, / 'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear, / My soul hath her content so absolute / That not another comfort like to this / Succeeds... | |
 | John Cullen Gruesser - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 193 pages
...however, when he is reunited with his wife on Cyprus, he can barely contain his emotion, telling her If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds to unknown... | |
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Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. 
