 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 280 pages
...result of'too much liberty', and he continues: As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures...proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. (t, ii, 126-30) Unless these lines are spoken ironically, a possible but unlikely interpretion, Claudio... | |
 | Marilyn L. Williamson - 1986 - 200 pages
...turns it into something joyless and destructive. As Claudio exclaims to Lucio when he is arrested, "Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down...bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die" (1.2.129-31). When Lucio might be forced to marry the mother of his child, she becomes "the rotten... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 pages
...to all proceedings" (IV. iv. 20-21) — and Claudio repudiates even his loving union with Juliet — "Our natures do pursue / Like rats that ravin down...bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die" (I.0.131-33). Procreation, which in the romantic comedies and in All's Well legitimizes sexuality and... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - 1994 - 324 pages
...restraint. So far we can follow him. We are familiar with this notion of abuse of liberty, but then comes: Our natures do pursue. Like rats that ravin down their...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. (1.2.120-22) Too much liberty, this seems to say, is too much poison; and a little liberty then would... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...but Calvinist that he was, he must have been struck by the play's startling image of original sin: Our natures do pursue Like rats that ravin down their...proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. (1.2.128) Shakespeare's view of human nature is, however, broader than Calvinist theology. It is not... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 240 pages
...the Hothouses: Shakespeare's Advice to the King," tournai of Popular Culture 20 (1986): 81-88. [158] Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. (1.2.126-30) It is difficult to imagine Lysander or Orlando censuring his own passion so savagely.... | |
 | John Somers - 1996 - 332 pages
...distorted by attitudinal poison which they willingly drank — to quote Shakespeare (Measure for Measure] "Our natures do pursue, like rats that ravin down...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die". Many of these questions are, of course, vividly relevant today. But the essential point is that the... | |
 | Lawrence J. Ross - 1997 - 194 pages
...Cla. From too much liberty, my Lucio. Liberty, As surfeit, is the father of much fast; So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. (116-22) LC Knights saw a confusion in the likeness between the twostepped process of arsenical rat... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 pages
...that mingles the dark and the light of the play. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die. Every scope. Too much of anything — authority, anarchy, lust, repression, reason, passion — and... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...comes From too much liberty, . . . Liberty As surfeit, is the father of much fast;118 So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. (1.2.117-22) This image of self-destructive natural appetite is a key to the play's moral problematic.... | |
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From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty; As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. 
