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" Behold, I have a weapon ; A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh : I have seen the day, That, with this little arm and this good sword, I have made my way through more impediments Than twenty times your stop : but, O vain boast ! Who... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 414
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...elegiacally, in the manner of Othello's noble ubi sunt. "I have seen the day," Othello reminisces, "That, with this little arm and this good sword, /...more impediments / Than twenty times your stop." But Antony's civic memories are tucked self-consciously into a subordinate clause: I, that with my sword...
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Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters

Alan C. Dessen - 1984 - 212 pages
...better never did itself sustain / Upon a soldier's thigh') in a speech that stresses his heroic past: 'I have seen the day / That with this little arm and...more impediments / Than twenty times your stop.' But, he concludes "Tis not so now. / Be not afraid, though you do see me weaponed'; rather, 'man but a rush...
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Othello

William Shakespeare - 2012 - 380 pages
...matter? 262 OTHELLO Behold, I have a weapon; A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day That with this little arm and...boast! Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now. 269 Be not afraid, though you do see me weaponed: 270 Here is my journey's end. here is my butt* 271...
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response

Kent Cartwright - 2010 - 301 pages
...his collapse of valor in "Behold, I have a weapon" (259-82). "Be not afraid," he says to Grariano, "Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail" (266-68). Destination, target, and peninsula: They are the bed, whose sight (recollections of his arrival...
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Othello

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 180 pages
...matter? OTHELLO Behold, I have a weapon: A better never did itself sustain 260 Upon a soldier's thigh. I have seen the day That with this little arm and...'tis not so now. Be not afraid, though you do see me weaponed: Here is my journey's end, here is my butt And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. Do you go...
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Shakespeare at Work

John Jones - 1999 - 310 pages
...through the closing minutes, and first asserted now: Be not afraid, though you do see me weaponed. Here is my journey's end, here is my butt And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. Do you go back dismayed? 'Tis a lost fear. Man but a rush against Othello's breast And he retires. Where should Othello...
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Otello. Testo originale a fronte

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 324 pages
...matter ? OTHELLO Behold, I have a weapon: A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh. I have seen the day That with this little arm and...impediments Than twenty times your stop. But, O vain boast I Who can control his fate ? - Tis not so now. Be not afraid, though you do see me weaponcd: Here is...
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Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination

Richard Eldridge - 1996 - 330 pages
...articulate in its power to generate a selfdisgust so deep that any other torture would be a relief: Here is my journey's end, here is my butt And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. Do you go back dismay'd? Tis a lost fear Man but a rush against Othello's breast And he retires. Where should Othello...
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Shakespeare in Opera, Ballet, Orchestral Music, and Song: An Introduction to ...

Arthur Graham - 1997 - 244 pages
...escape. Othello: Behold, I have a weapon, A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day, That with this little arm, and...And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear: Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires. Where should Othello...
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Othello

William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - 2014 - 330 pages
...matter? 310 Othello Behold, I have a weapon: A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh. I have seen the day That with this little arm and...sword, I have made my way through more impediments 315 Than twenty times your stop. But, oh vain boast! Who can control his fate? Tis not so now. Be not...
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