 | Herbert Blau - Drama - 2002 - 375 pages
...self, its mockery. The pure subjectivity of him, captive to the self, rages:] TOM: Yet I, yet I, I, am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate...my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose?gives me the lie i' the throat As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? KAR: You are merry,... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...he is supposed to be doing, and marvels over his inability to understand himself or his situation: Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate...off my beard and blows it in my face, Tweaks me by th' nose, gives me the lie i'th' throat As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Why, what an ass... | |
 | Patrick Tucker - Performing Arts - 2002 - 316 pages
...muddy-metrled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say norhing — no, nor for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life...made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pare actoss, Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i'th'throat... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - Business & Economics - 2002 - 321 pages
...peasant slave am I! ... A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Likejohn-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing — no, not for a king, Upon whose...dear life A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? HAMLET (2.2, 550, 568-72) Then from hand-wringing he shifts to breast-beating: But I am pigeon-liver'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...of my cause, And can say nothing, no, not for a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward ? Who calls me villain...across ? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face ? 570 Tweaks me by the nose ? Gives me the He i'th'throat As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 348 pages
...the subtlety Shakespearian verse demands of an actor. In a mood of despair Hamlet thinks how he . . . can say nothing. No, not for a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made. (n. ii. 604) I suggest that he speaks in a black mood, but rising out from it comes the thought of... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams unpregnant of my cause, 595 And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose...across. Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face, 600 Tweaks me by th' nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?... | |
 | James E. Hirsh - English drama - 2003 - 474 pages
...play I in one person many people (31) Something similar occurs in a very long soliloquy by Hamlet: Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate...in my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? (2.2.571-75) Who indeed? Surely not some irate... | |
 | Hilaire Kallendorf - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...aloud, asking who is responsible for the symptoms (classic signs of demonic possession) that he feels: Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Plucks...in my face, Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as the lungs? Who does me this?219 One answer for the confused early modern self... | |
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A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face ? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? 
