 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 262 pages
...fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; 30 any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose... | |
 | Douglas Bruster - 2005 - 192 pages
...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 relieve a lame 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... | |
 | Claudia Swan - 2005 - 288 pages
...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 lame 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... | |
 | Barbara Olexer - 2005 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 pages
...There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give out a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. When Stephano enters there is a witty use of the device of placing a metaphorical... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - 2005 - 380 pages
...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 relieve a lame 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... | |
 | Michael Saenger - 2006 - 196 pages
...Trinculo contemplates the relative valuation of two damaged bodies on the streets of urban England: "When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (II, ii, 29-31). two are deeply complementary. I do not mean here to construct a... | |
 | Alden T. Vaughan - 2006 - 372 pages
...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" (The Tempest, 2.. 1. 27-32). That brief allusion to an American corpse raised tantalizing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2006 - 72 pages
...once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give apiece of silver... When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. What do we have here? A man or 3 fish? Dead or alive? A fish? A strange sort of... | |
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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 relieve a lame... 
