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" My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs; She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful. "
Cupid's Birthday Book: One Thousand Love-darts from Shakespeare, Gathered ... - Page 5
by William Shakespeare, George Johnston - 1875 - 448 pages
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Evolutionary Paleobiology

James W. Valentine - 1996 - 500 pages
...faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: . . . she thank'd me, I should but teach him how to tell my story. And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd. And I lov'd her that she did pity them. And so, the man...
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pages
...return to Ithaca finds its parallel in Desdemona's "supersubtle" seduction of the warrior Othello: "she thank'd me, / And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, / 1 should but teach him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her" (1.3.16366). Like...
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Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and Art

Timothy Murray - 1997 - 324 pages
...'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful. She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man. She thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake....
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Othello

William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - 2014 - 330 pages
...180 She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me. And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, 185 And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And...
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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Othello

John Seely, William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...pitiful. She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,...story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her, that she did pity them. This only is the...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 pages
...pitiful. She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell mv storv, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
.../ She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished /That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me / And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,...story /And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: / She loved me for the dangers I had passed / And I loved her that she did pity them. [I. iii. 146-69]...
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Writing Prejudices: The Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy of Discrimination from ...

Robert Samuels - 2001 - 210 pages
...becomes apparent when he declares that Desdemona responded to his story by thanking him and saying that "if I had a friend that loved her, / I should but...him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her" (1.3.164-66). It is clear from this passage that Othello's story and his value can be detached from...
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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

David Schalkwyk - 2002 - 284 pages
...[his] life': My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of kisses [sighs - QJ. She thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,...teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her (Othello, 1.3.157-165) it fulfils a fantasy expressed by Astrophil: Then thinke, my deare, that you...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 46

Stanley Wells - 2002 - 284 pages
...there, is of a piece with her earlier hinting privately to Othello of her feelings for him when she 'bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, / I should...him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her' (1.3.163-5). Thus there was aptness as well as affection in Othello's greeting her on his arrival in...
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