 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pages
...quoted) his own person. He is never sincere and truly in earnest but when he is about to commit a murder. 'Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let Hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. ' This is his introduction to the reader; and in his last scene he indulges the bitterness of his soul... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...In the same soliloquy, he also says that he has "neither pity, love, nor fear," and proclaims that I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this...like one another, And not in me! I am myself alone. (Pt.3, V.vi.68, 80-83) Richard also has a much longer soliloquy in the earlier scene of Edward's wooing... | |
 | Gillian Day - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
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 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...neither pity, love, nor fear . . . since the heavens have shaped my body so, / Let hell make crooked my mind to answer it. . . . / I have no brother, /.../ Be resident in men like one another / And not in me-I am myself alone" (68— 84). This is what I have already indicated: Richard's personality undergoes... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...of his birth: And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let...answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother. (V.vi.71-80) But can one be revenged on nature from within nature? Richard wants both to discover that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crookt his is a Montague, our foe; A villain, that is hither...come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night. Be resident in men like one another, And not in me: I am myself alone. — Clarence, beware; thou keep'st... | |
 | Nicholas Grene - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...bring about the downfall and death of Clarence are, as far as he is concerned, mere black propaganda: Clarence, beware: thou keep'st me from the light; But I will sort a pitchy day for thee, For I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life And then, to purge his fear, I'll... | |
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And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards... 
