...minces virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name. The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand....

...primal male nausea at the thought of the female body, the nausea most fully articulated in King Lear: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is...sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothecary, Sweeten my imagination. (IV. vi....

...goddesses from the waist up), and centaurs. The sexual symbolism of the centaur persists in Shakespeare: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit—burning scalding, Stench, consumption:...

...free-for-all in Act IV, anxiously reveals a similar figure as the repressed origin of all of his troubles: "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, / Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah!" (IV.vi. 124-29). n This extremely troubled, not to mention troubling, displacement...

...origins and encouragement of satyriasis. To hear of pleasure's name; The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. (King Leni- IV.vi. 124-30) an I-based eye which, for our purposes, stares back at what it sees. It...

...minces virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name. The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...the girdle do the gods inherit. Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption....

...virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; - fie fie fie! pah, pah! (Act IV,...

...and Down i. To take just one example, consider the King's misogynist soliloquy in King Lear (IV, vi): "Down from the waist they are centaurs / Though women...the girdle do the gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's; there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit." "Belowness" symbolized not...

...and the Figures of Speech by Craig Kallendorf "He apprehends a world of figures here." (IHenI¥lm209) "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's." (KL IV.vi. 123-26) Madeleine Doran has observed that "English Renaissance drama is rhetorical...

...sexuality through the image of a female centaur conceived in terms strongly reminiscent of Scylla: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit — burning scalding, / Stench,...