 | 348 pages
...using the language as a whole. Cleopatra, taking up the asp, says to it: Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; poor venomous fool, Be angry, and despatch ! Consider how many senses of mortal, besides 'death-dealing'... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...For it hath travell'd and is married there Where it may view itself. Troilui and Cretiida III, iii 62 With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; Anthon-t and Cleopatra V, ii 63 And as imagination bodies forth A local habitation and a name. A Midsummer... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...between polysyllables and monosyllables. A little earlier, Cleopatra puts the asp to her breast and says: With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie . . . Monosyllabic, Anglo-Saxon words express the direct, immediate action Cleopatra seeks, all except... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...make demand of her, and spend that kiss Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou mortal wretch, [to an asp, which she applies to her breast With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate 300 Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1993 - 40 pages
...then holds the asp to her body and lets it bite. Cleopatra instructs the asp Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. Act v Sc ii The venom acts quickly; when she kisses her... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...." The asp is lover and child, phallic and gynocentric, death-bringing and immortality-conferring: "with thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate / Of life at once untie" (V.ii.299-313). Fulfilling the asps' desires, Cleopatra, in one last achievement of perfect mutuality,... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...but now with phrases that sustain rather than break the rhythm. CLEOPATRA. Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; poor venomous fool, Be angry, and despatch. O, could'st thou speak, That I might hear thec call great... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...even he has to admire. The un- prefix is used subtly to bear this out when Cleopatra says to the asp: With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie. Poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great... | |
 | Laura Levine - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 200 pages
...299-300). Cleopatra too wants the asp to articulate what an ass Caesar is: Come, thou mortal wretch, [To an asp, which she applies to her breast] With thy sharp...teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie. Poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great... | |
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Come, thou mortal wretch, [To the asp, which she applies to her breast. With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. 
