| Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...4.1.111-12; Henry V 4. 3. 100-103), as they will be when the carnival moves from Eastcheap to Westminster: If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents . . . (1.2.199-202)... | |
| Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1998 - 440 pages
...communities invoked, since these "leveled" communities were desirable only insofar as they were temporary. "If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work." But this argument does not take into account the growing criticism of traditional systems of rank that... | |
| Marjorie B. Garber - Civilization, Modern - 1998 - 294 pages
...pathos. Tahe Time for Pacadise begins with a quotation from Shakespeare's Prince Hal ("If all the world were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work") which is all the more striking for its relevance to the concept of "banishment" in the Henry /Vplays... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...rest is silence. 10233 Henry IV Part 1 Thou hast the most unsavoury similies. 10234 Henry IV, Part 1 t tedlous as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished to come. 10235 Henry IV, Part I Go hang... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...with the same brio once it lacks a law against which to strive. (As Prince Hal remarked in 1 Henry IV, "If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.") The tavern milieu, by sheer familiarity, has lost its originality, like a too-oft-told joke; it has... | |
| Ellen Shenk - Business & Economics - 2000 - 228 pages
...because you love working on or in the water." See Commercio/ Diving, page 122. Chapter & Recreation If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare, King Henry IV As the new millennium opens, organized recreation has increased... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come, And nothing pleascth but rare accidents. So when this... | |
| Douglas Bruster - Drama - 2000 - 286 pages
...that had always been present to his dramatic practice. CHAPTER 4 Quoring lhe Playhouse in The Tempesl If all the year were playing holidays. To sport would be as redious as to work. HAL, in I Henty ^(1597) We have seen thar, thtoughour his careet, Shakespeare rended... | |
| Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...more wond'red at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when... | |
| Henry S. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2001 - 384 pages
...frame of reference. Always consider the other side's proposals in this light. PAY FOR TIME NOT WORKED "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." [William Shakespeare] Time on the job may be divided into two categories, time actually spent doing... | |
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