 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...: and so of men. 16— iii. 1. 447. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile ; And cry, couteut, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. 23 — iii. 2. 448. Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin : For thou thyself hast been a libertine,... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 pages
...out of the womb, making a birth canal where none exists. Seeking a way, and straying from the way, Not knowing how to find the open air, But toiling...free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. (3 Henry VI 3.2.176-81) Figuratively, this may be seen as a process of violently willful biological... | |
 | Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott - Social Science - 1989 - 264 pages
...general qualities appropriate to Machiavelli's and modern society: Why I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry "Content" to that which grieves my...tears, And frame my face to all occasions.... I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another... | |
 | Ronald L. Dotterer - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 252 pages
...discourse as primarily a stage for displays of personal perversity: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. (Part 3. 3.2.182-85) Language is merely a wardrobe from which Richard can select the appropriate garment,... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...speaks like another Clinias when he vaunts his actor's talent: "Why, I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, / And cry "Content" to that which grieves...artificial tears, / And frame my face to all occasions" (3H6 3.2.182-85). His cohort in the next play of the tetralogy, Buckingham, shows that he too can set... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...wood, That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns, Seeking a way, and straying from the way; Not knowing how to find the open air, But toiling...free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. (3.2.174-81) In an imagistic nightmare, the crown and the obstacles to the crown collapse into one... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...thorny wood, That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns, Seeking a way and straying from the way, Not knowing how to find the open air But toiling desperately...out — Torment myself to catch the English crown. (3H6 3. 2.134-36, 172-79) Because Richard's desire for the crown is a displacement of his desire for... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1995 - 388 pages
...Gloucester's gleeful fantasy of wickedness also has a Marlovian ring: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my...artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 366 pages
...sanctity. "I clothe my naked villany," says Richard, "And seem a saint, when most I play the devil": Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry...cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.28 When Richard is pictured as (merely) a "diffus'd infection of a man," his entire identity... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 364 pages
...my naked villany," says Richard, "And seem a saint, when most I play the devil": Why, I can sm1le, and murder while I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artif1cial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. 28 When Richard is pictured as (merely) a "diffus'd... | |
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That rents the thorns, and is rent with the thorns Seeking a way, and straying from the way ; Not knowing how to find the open air, But toiling desperately to find it out, — Torment myself to catch the English crown : And from that torment I will free... 
