| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 212 pages
...RICHARD O Ratcliffe, I fear, I fear! RATCLIFFE Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows. KING RICHARD By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more...Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers 220 Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. 'Tis not yet near day. Come, go with me. Under our... | |
| Colley Cibber - Drama - 2001 - 606 pages
...CATESBY. Shadows, my lord — below the soldier's heeding. RICHARD. Now, by my this day's hopes — shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance often thousand soldiers Armed all in proof, and led by shallow Richmond. CATESBY. Be more yourself,... | |
| Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...theatrical representation of Richard's bad conscience. This feeling is reinforced by his confessing: By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more...Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers . . . (5.3.217-19) In his final soliloquy, although at times his self-dramatisation is a direct appeal... | |
| George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity! (xvi, 120) Compare: By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more...terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance often thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. (Richard HI, v, iii, 217) 'Shallow'... | |
| J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...even though we may become adept at ignoring it. Richard says later to one of his attendants, . . . shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul...Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. (Richard IIIV 3 217-19) The judgement of the soul is terrifying. In the end, however, he still chooses... | |
| William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...the head of Richard. SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF. Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows. KING RICHARD. ic. SIR NATHANIEL. Lous Deo, bone intelligo. HOLOFBRNES. Bo often thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. It is not yet near day. Come, go... | |
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