 | William Shakespeare - Acting - 2003 - 80 pages
...plainly signified That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer...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,... | |
 | Dominique Goy-Blanquet - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...brothers' disloyalty, Richard has climbed all the steps of radical individualism by the end of j Henry VI: I have no brother, I am like no brother. And this...like one another And not in me: I am myself alone, (v. vi. 80-3) The deviant offers his own psychological analysis of his ravenous hunger for power by... | |
 | Ronald Bogue - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 230 pages
...difference and the feminine from Shakespeare. In Act V, scene vi of Henry VI, Part II1. Richard states, "I have no brother, I am like no brother;/ And this...like one another,/ And not in me. I am myself alone" (11. 80-83). These lines Bene presents at the beginning of his Richard III in the following form: "I... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 156 pages
...choice myself alone': A parody of Richard Ill's declaration in 3 Henry VI, after the murder of Henry VI, "I have no brother, I am like no brother; / And this...like one another / And not in me! I am myself alone" (5.6.80-83). FERDINAND Auden sent a copy of "Ferdinand's Song" to Elizabeth Mayer in a letter dated... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...before the full madness of his inhumanities, Richard had committed himself to a path of isolation, I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this...like one another And not in me; I am myself alone. (3 Henry VI V 6 80-3) 1 am myself alone. ' Richard's words anticipate the ultimate separation that... | |
 | Royal Shakespeare Company - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 250 pages
...added them to the first soliloquy: Then since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crooked my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like...like one another And not in me; I am myself alone. (Part Three, v.vi.7S-S3) In extremis, therefore, I can only trust, possibly only love, that young boy,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Rothwell - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 402 pages
...has already ascended the throne and his younger brother, the misshapen Richard duke of Gloucester - "Then since the heavens have shap'd my body so, / Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" (? Henry V! 5.6.78) - is scheming to usurp his brother's crown. To make these machinations plain to... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...snapping personality of the dentally equipped baby), he prays that his mind may match his deformed body: "Then since the heavens have shap'd my body so, / Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" (5.6.78-9). If Richard is a villain, the role is clearly not congenital. One suspects, then, that the... | |
 | MacDonald Pairman Jackson - Drama - 2004 - 300 pages
...am like no father; I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word "love," which graybeards call divine Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone. (3 Henry VI, 5.6.78-84) But Richard of Gloucester does in fact have kin, including both a father and... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...soliloquy comes after he has murdered Henry VI: in it he proclaims his detachment from his fellows: I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this...like one another, And not in me! I am myself alone. The protagonist of Richard III, which is concerned with the events immediately following, is developed... | |
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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... 
