 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1100 pages
...Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, 140 And in no sense is meet or amiable. A woman moved thco, And fur thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...bite the meads, Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds, And in no sense is meet or amiable. A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, Muddy,...thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. [V.ii. 136-45] Katherina, now fully rehabilitated in station and appearance, stands before us in this... | |
 | Anthony Fletcher, John Stevenson - 1987 - 268 pages
...other words. But although it is tempting for a modern audience to take Kate's final speech ironically - 'Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper / Thy head, thy sovereign', and so on the fact is that it expresses fairly accurately the ideal of husband-wife relations propounded... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...amiable. A (explains) woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, (look at widow) thick, bereft of beauty; And while it is so, none...or touch one drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, (patiently explaining), thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - 1992 - 366 pages
...utterance reflects the familiar Renaissance commonplace voiced by Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign. 28 The wording in this apparently trivial debate thus links the scene to the main theme of the play—namely,... | |
 | Maria Tatar - 1993 - 336 pages
...husbands." In her speech, Katherina recites the lessons she has learned and preaches submission to husbands: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; . . . And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience — Too little... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 148 pages
...Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, 140 And in no sense is meet or amiable. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick,...husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign;173 one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance; commits his body To painful labour,... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 pages
...a clear, life-giving fountain, responsive to her husband's "honest will" (V.ii.160): A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick,...thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. [144-47] As Petruchio transforms Kate's shrewishness into spirited devotion, she redefines his bullying... | |
 | Russ McDonald - 1994 - 324 pages
...into metaphoric peerage and women in the audience will be enjoined likewise to elevate their husbands: "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, / Thy head, thy sovereign" (5.2.151—52), says Kate. But Sly's madam wife has always been, of course, little Bartholomew, the... | |
 | Serge Soupel - 1995 - 252 pages
...soumise à l'autorité de son mari, et l'on n'a rien dit de différend depuis Shakespeare et Katharina : "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, / Thy head, thy sovereign. . . (Shakespeare, The Tarning of the Shrew, 5. 2. 146-47). Les enfants qui apprennent volontairement... | |
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A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. 
