 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...father's death. Since peace has robbed Richard of his identity he will entirely refashion himself: I in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight...own deformity. And therefore since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24-30) To... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 2000 - 430 pages
...begot ยก Not Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed , unfinished , sent before my time 20 Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And...dogs bark at me as I halt by them: Why, I in this weak-piping time of peace Have no delight to pass away the time, 25 Unless to spy my shadow in the... | |
 | Carol Rawlings Miller - Education - 2001 - 84 pages
...curtaiVd of this fair proportion, cut short Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, deceptive Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing...shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: describe at length And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken... | |
 | Thomas Leech - Business & Economics - 2001 - 328 pages
...Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings. Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. . . . 58 Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no...deformity: And, therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle... | |
 | Ruth O'Brien - Business & Economics - 2001 - 310 pages
...illustrate his argument. As the story goes, Richard III was "cheated of feature by disembling nature, deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time into this...unfashionable, that dogs bark at me as I halt by them." For this reason, Richard wreaked havoc on the world. As Shakespeare said, "[S]ince I cannot prove a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinisht, I will requite thee, Taming my wild heart to thy loving...incite thee To bind our loves up in a holy band; For lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce...shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity. (1.1.16-27) 'Descanting', a musical term, signifying that Richard boasts of his ability to counterpoint... | |
 | Wes Folkerth - Drama - 2002 - 168 pages
...ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this...by them Why, I. in this weak piping time of peace ... (1.1.1-24) 4 The cylinder runs out at this point, and the moment it records disappears back into... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - Art - 2002 - 410 pages
...breathing world scarce half made upAnd that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as 1 halt by them Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace....Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on my own deformity. (1, 1 14-27) Richard's ugliness places him, on the one hand, in the line of the tradition... | |
 | Mary Ayers - Attachment behavior - 2003 - 260 pages
...curtailed of this fair proportion. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Deformed. unfinished. sent before my time Into this breathing world. scarce...own deformity: And therefore. since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well,spoken days. I am determined to prove a villain. And not the idle... | |
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I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them... 
