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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. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 156
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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Players of Shakespeare 5, Volume 5

Robert Smallwood - Drama - 2003 - 252 pages
...moment when the actor has to strip away any sense of display, or contrivance, or self-consciousness: There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows of aught he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (vu 213-18) This fatalism...
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Shakespeare and the Human Mystery

J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...and our varied attempts at redirecting it. In pondering the possibility of his own death, he says, There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (Hamlet V 2 214-16) This is a major feature of the contemplative's message, as it is of the fool's....
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Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Revisited by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and ...

Andy Lavender - Social Science - 2003 - 292 pages
...Sangare then speaks Hamlet's lines (in the play they come before he goes to his duel with Laertes): There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. There are three closing utterances. Firstly, Craig asserts that the words 'today', yesterday' and especially...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...experience them as embodiments of tragic understanding: Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave berimes. Let be. (Hamlet, v, ii, 221-6)...
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Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance

Lloyd Davis - Drama - 2003 - 344 pages
...directly to the understanding of Kairos described in this paper: We defy augury. 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. (5.2.157-60) Here all the components of Kairos come together — an openness to opportunity and what...
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The Kendall/Hunt Anthology: Literature to Write About

K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...their repair hither, and say you are not fit. 229 Ham. Not a whit; we defy augury. 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. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? [Let be.] 235 I 70. [bet] Q.,....
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Favourite Wisdom

Deborah Cassidi - Religion - 2003 - 196 pages
...Thy radiance. Bhagavad C,ila, ix: verse 19, trans. Franklin Hdgerton (1885-1963) I here'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 (1164-1616), from Hamlet, Act V, Scene ii 1 Sir Derek underlined 'The readiness...
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Not of this World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism

James S. Cutsinger - Religion - 2003 - 312 pages
...precisely why this greatest of quests is one upon which everyone must eventually choose to embark. "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." We have explained that this book has three basic Parts because the spiritual journey is traditionally...
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Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick und das antike Epos

Eva Hänssgen - Classical literature - 2003 - 300 pages
...with him, I suppose" (93; ein Anklang an die Worte, mit denen Hamlet sich in sein Schicksal fügt: "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all." Hamlet V, ii, 193-5).42 Ihr Los kann also doch Schicksal, das Geschehen somit doppelt motiviert sein:...
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Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare

Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - History - 2003 - 286 pages
...close to the attitude of the seminary priests as they faced daily the threat of capture and death. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come; if it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all' (5,2.221-2). Campion had written,...
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