 | Natasha Korda - 2002 - 304 pàgines
...was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (2. 2. 27-32). The English are here disparagingly characterized by their "delight in novelties," which... | |
 | Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare - 276 pàgines
...Parthenon until 1811 (Etienne and Etienne 1992: 68, 74-75). Native Americans in the European Imagination when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.— William Shakespeare, The Tempest The point of discussing the Elgin Marbles is to indicate that the... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 282 pàgines
...of beggars is in Shakespeare always their def1ning characteristic: when a 'holiday-fool' in England 'will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Tempest 2.2.29-33). Shakespeare's plays are filled with reminders of 'famished beggars, weary of their... | |
 | Susan Sontag - 2004 - 146 pàgines
...could be put on exhibit in England: "not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." The exhibition in photographs of cruelties inflicted on those with darker complexions in exotic countries... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pàgines
...ofbeggars is in Shakespeare always their defining characteristic: when a 'holiday-fool' in England 'will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Tempest 2.2.29-33). Shakespeare's plays are filled with reminders of 'famished beggars, weary of their... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - 262 pàgines
...Trinculo opines: "Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (2.2.27-31; these are, we recall, the only lines from The Tempest cited in Lamming's Water with Berries).... | |
 | Douglas Bruster - 2005 - 192 pàgines
...When Trinculo stumbles across the "strange fish" called Caliban in The Tempest (l6l l), he exclaims: Were I in England now (as once I was) and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. (2.2.27-33) A prospective exhibitor of the strange fish, Trinculo functions as the agent of English... | |
 | Claudia Swan - 2005 - 288 pàgines
...fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (II, ii). Clusius 1605 mentions that fish and other sea creatures were put on public display in Leiden... | |
 | Barbara Olexer - 2005 - 260 pàgines
...that Shakespeare referred to in 1610 when he wrote The Tempest. Act II, Scene II reads in part, ". . . when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Amoret could be the one referred to because he is not mentioned after Weymouth turned them over to... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - 2005 - 380 pàgines
...alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, notof-the-newest, poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, - hold... | |
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A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to... 
