| Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high and duck again...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (n, i, 186-95) It is not an accident that, in his words to lago at the end of the play, Othello should... | |
| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...tempest come such calms, May the winds bellow till they have wakened death, And let the labouring barque climb hills of seas Olympus-high, and duck again as...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. DESDEMONA The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow.... | |
| G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...winds blow till they have waken'd death! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus high and duck again as low As hell's from heaven! If it...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (ni 1 85) Notice here the 'hills of seas', and the reiterated word 'content', Shakespeare's word for... | |
| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...Cyprus and is reunited with Desdemona, 'his one desire is to hold this moment to make it eternal'.14 If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy;...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (2.1.186-90) But Othello's belief in the possibility of absolute happiness through love also reveals... | |
| Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...forbidden love. We must recall that Othello's anticipations of bliss had prompted thoughts of death: If it were now to die 'Twere now to be most happy;...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. It is one of those flights of Othello's hyperbole that suggest too much before the fact, and Desdemona... | |
| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...scene, 11, i, where Othello voices his sense of its surpassing excellence by saying: rr. ,. ' ' ° It 1t were now to die, "Twere now to be most happy; for...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. The happiness is so intense as to be almost unbearable. Yet this happiness is destroyed so completely... | |
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