 | Lee Edelman - Performing Arts - 2004 - 218 pages
...narrative intelligibility that Hamlet, for instance, defers to when he forbears from deferring his fate: "Not a whit, we defy augury. There is a special providence...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all" (V. ii. 220-224). The falling sparrows of Hitchcock's film — and the film will specify sparrows as... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...Claudius approaches. Hamlet has a sense of resignation about his fate: We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now....all. Since no man. of aught he leaves. knows what is't to leave betimes. let be. ( V.ii.2 19-24) There is something attractive and soothing about these... | |
 | Margaret R. O'Leary - Disaster relief - 2004 - 565 pages
...0-595-66258-7 (cloth) Printed in the United States of America To Mr. Robert A. Wiegand There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet V, ii Contents List of Contributors xv Preface xix CHAPTER i Introduction:... | |
 | Roger Leslie - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 230 pages
...greatest success know not to give up on their dreams when they don't manifest as quickly as they hoped. "If it be now, 'tis not to come; If it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." — William Shakespeare Hamlet V. I, II. 231-234 Have you ever wanted something so badly that it broke... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - Literary Collections - 2004 - 310 pages
...individual and the general, of simple form and complex thought, in the speech about defying augury If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all and coming to rest on 'Let be'. It is tempring because many Jacobean tragic heroes and heroines were... | |
 | Darrelyn Gunzburg - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 341 pages
...the journey of the play he is awakened to death and comes to realise that death makes life possible: "Not a whit, we defy augury. There is a special providence...sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all..."41 "Readiness"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be. 210 Attendants enter to set benches and carry in cushions for the spectators;... | |
 | Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...the God who directs it is a just and benevolent one: Not a whit, we defy augury : there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (V.ii.230-5) This is the answer to... | |
 | Lindsay Price - 2005 - 52 pages
...their repair hither, and say you are not fit. HAMLET: Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. Music plays. CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE, LAERTES,... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...indifference and again move outside his own situation to suggest the finality of the whole experience: If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. We may be reminded of Feeble's consolation: 'And let it go which way... | |
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tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all. 
