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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of ... - Page 79
by William Shakespeare - 1768
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 pages
...and the foolish chroniclersk of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. ORL. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 47, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was—Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Orl. Then in mine own person, I die. Orl. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind;...
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Shakespeare and Masculinity

Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.81-3, 86-101) The word-play here on 'person' (as theatrical role, as legal agent, as...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4. 1. 88-101) Rosalind-as-Ganymede does not only debunk the old myths of romantic love,...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [^.¡.65-103] HAROLD BLOOM casan. Las doncellas son mayo cuando son doncellas, pero el cielo...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...ultimate destiny. The disguised Rosalind in As You Like It, iv, 1, laughs at the lovelorn Orlando: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." The disguised Viola turns the figure in Twelfth Night, ii, 4, picturing her own forced restraint...
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The Death of Comedy

Erich Segal - 2009 - 612 pages
...connotations of "dying." In As You Like It, Shakespeare's Rosalind debunked this poetic hyperbole: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.57 Yet here in Shakespeare's last "happy comedy" we have something closer to a real death....
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As You Like It

Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 36 pages
...would die for love of Rosalind but 'Ganymede' scoffs at this romantic idea. To die for love? . . . men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Act iv Sc i Orlando soon has to hurry away to keep an appointment. Rosalind eagerly awaits...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...drowned: and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Rosalind— AYLI IV.i Wilt thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an instrument and play...
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Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-century Women Novelists and Appropriation

Julie Sanders - 2001 - 274 pages
...instructing Orlando in the realities of love rather than the wornout cliches of Petrarchan sonneteering: 'Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.' (As You L1ke It, 4.1.92-3); or of Rosaline educating the cynical Biron in Love's Labour's...
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