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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... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare: King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI - Page 524
by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847
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Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pages
...when he first announces himself in Henry VI, Part Three: Love forswore me in my mother's womb. . . . I'll drown more sailors than the Mermaid shall; I'll...Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. 1 can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous...
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Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance

Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 232 pages
...learn of him. In relation to the other characters, he exploits the invisibility of his own interior. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry...Ulysses could And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. (3 Henry VI 3.2.18-90) Openly violent earlier in the play, Richard learns to elaborate an innocuous...
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Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance

Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 240 pages
...learn of him. In relation to the other characters, he exploits the invisibility of his own interior. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, And cry...mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk; [49] I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could And, like a Sinon,...
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Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England

Dennis Todd - 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...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles think'st 3 chameleon; Change shapes with Proteus for advantages; And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can...
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories

Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - 1997 - 276 pages
...the Machiavellian tricks he will use to destroy those, including his brothers, who stand in his way. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall, I'll...could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murtherous Machevil...
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War Crimes Law Comes of Age: Essays

Theodor Meron - 1998 - 360 pages
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and mueder whiles I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves...I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could. And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colours to the chameleon....
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Barrymore: A Play

William Luce - 1998 - 60 pages
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile; And cry content to that which grieves my...I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor; Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could; And, like a Sinon, take another...
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Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

Theodor Meron - 1998 - 257 pages
...torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry "Content!" to that which grieves...I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colours to the chameleon,...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...English crown : And from that torment I will free myself. Or hew my way out with a bloody axe . . . I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll...Ulysses could. And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. (iIi.Ü) Richard III, also based on Holinshed's Chronicles, followed Henry VI in 1592 or 1593; and...
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