| Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - 292 pagini
...seeming agreement on the "monstruosity" of love. Troilus laments over the "monstruosity in love . . . that the will is infinite and the execution confined;...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit" (3.2.75— 78). Troilus here speaks of the impossibility of matching poetic hyperboles — "to weep... | |
| Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pagini
...is presented no monster" (Tro. 3.2.72-73). He is more accurate when he goes on to refine his claim: "This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit" (Tro. 3.2.79-82). The "monstruosity" Troilus acknowledges is not, he says, part of a play like Cupid's... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagini
...CLIVE JAMES (b. 1939), Australian writer, critic. TV host. Falling Towards England, ch. 8 (1985). 2 ulhor. Pascal's Sphere (1951; repr. in WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Troilus, In Troilus and Cress/da, act 3,... | |
| Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 pagini
...end, as many have noted. 23 The relation of value to market also informs the politics of sex: TROILUS: This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the will...desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. CRESSIDA: They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pagini
...sexual act; it also exceeds both the desiring consciousness and the subject that utters its own desire.' 'This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the...desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.' (III.2.79) The ultimate paradox is that even when words lose their hold on experience, Shakespeare... | |
| John Russell - 1995 - 260 pagini
...ster," or, if so, it is of such nature as to confirm the extent of his passion: This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the -will is infinite and the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. (III.ii.82-85) Pandarus too supplies an endorsement of Troilus's constancy. "Be true to my lord," he... | |
| Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 pagini
...taming tigers at a mistress's behest.30 But then he comes to the real 'monstruosity in love, ... - that the will is infinite and the execution confined;...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit' (1.78). It is at this point that Cressida recalls the hare reference from the earlier scene with devastating... | |
| Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pagini
...more depressing but more self-disclosing utterance when Troilus is in Cressida's physical presence: This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confin'd, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. (ni. ii. 81-3) With this formula,... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagini
...Russian poet, dramatist. Our March, sts. 2 and 6 (1917), trans, by Dorian Rottenberg (1972). Impotence 1 This is the monstruosity in love, lady — that the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3,... | |
| Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 pagini
...conflicts are peculiar to personhood? First, there are those between the desired and the possible. "This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the...confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act slave to limit."43 Second, there are those between the simultaneous awarenesses of living and dying.... | |
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