 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 558 sidor
...ccs virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name , — The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 526 sidor
...and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name, — The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...all above ; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 1 20 125 1 14. Man] Than were Cap. 115. sheets.] sheets, were unto me. Ktly. 1 1 6. lack'] want Qt.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 sidor
...virtue, — ] That affects the coy timidity of virtue. .The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends' ; there 's hell, there 's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 646 sidor
...and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; — The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends' ; there 's hell, there 's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption... | |
 | William Ian Miller - 1997 - 340 sidor
...monstrous, hellish, and vile, disgust-evoking places. Recall Lear's image: Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah! pah! But I suspect that the reason vaginas are capable of evoking disgust depends on something more than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 sidor
...124 Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 126 Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothe- BO cary, sweeten my imagination! There's money for thee. GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand.... | |
 | Keith Burgess-Jackson - 1999 - 323 sidor
...suggest was written after Shakespeare learned he had contracted syphilis, in which Lear says of women: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit — burning, scalding, Stench,... | |
 | Wendy Doniger - 1999 - 390 sidor
...sexuality through the image of a female centaur conceived in terms strongly reminiscent of Scylla: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit — burning scalding, / Stench,... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 sidor
...and the Figures of Speech by Craig Kallendorf "He apprehends a world of figures here." (IHenI¥lm209) "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's." (KL IV.vi. 123-26) Madeleine Doran has observed that "English Renaissance drama is rhetorical... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 sidor
...however, extends beyond a general misogyny, given its quintessential Shakespearean expression in Lear's "But to the girdle do the gods inherit / Beneath is...hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit" (4.6.126-28)18 — in which the female body, with its rapacious desires, figures the antithesis of... | |
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With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends': there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption.... 
