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" Out upon her ! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise ; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. "
Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II]. - Page 126
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765
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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 pages
...Lenh when 1 was a bachelor ; 1 would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. Tub. But Antonio is certainly undone. Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true ; go, fee me an officer, bespeak him a fortnight before. I will have the heart of him, if he forfeit ; for were he out of Venice,...
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The History and Poetry of Finger-rings

Charles Edwards - 1855 - 268 pages
...monkey. ' " Skylod: Out upon her ! Thou torturest me, Tubal ; it was my turquoise ; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor : I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys." The Arabs value the turquoise chiefly for its reputed talismanic qualities...
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The Jew in the Novels of Benito Perez Galdos

Sara E. Schyfter - 1978 - 148 pages
...remembering the ring he received from his wife, he exclaims: «It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor; I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys» (Act III, i, 111-112). Shylocks's extravagant comparison, «a wilderness of...
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Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning

Norman Rabkin - 1981 - 176 pages
...daughter for a monkey. SHY. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turkis, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. (Ill.i. 102-23) More clearly evocative of laughter at Shylock's obsessions and...
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Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare

Linda Bamber - 1982 - 223 pages
...for a monkey. He cries, Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. (Ill.i. 116-19) Shylock, of course, is the closest thing to a tragic Self in...
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Literary Visions of Homosexuality

Stuart Kellogg - 1983 - 192 pages
...Shylock cries, "Out upon her! — thou tortures! me, Tubai! — it was my turquoise, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys" (III, i, 125-28). More than one reader has agreed that this is Shylock's really...
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Shakespeare's Agonistic Comedy: Poetics, Analysis, Criticism

G. Beiner - 1993 - 332 pages
...ducats at a sitting, fourscore ducats! . . . thou torturest me Tubal. It was my turkis, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys" — 3.1.111-23) we find the second qualification regarding the antagonist versus...
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Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy

John Gross - 1994 - 404 pages
...rings she has stolen for a monkey: Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. "It was my turquoise, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor." A single sentence,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...for a monkey. SHYLOCK. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah To this we swore our aid. But in short space It rain' wilderness of monkeys. TUBAL. But Antonio is certainly undone. SHYLOCK. Nay, that's true, that's very...
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Nature of Religious Language: A Colloquium

Stanley E. Porter - 1996 - 322 pages
...Shylock's great cry in the Merchant of Venice, Out upon her... it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor; I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. (Ill.i. 108) So Tyndale, who wanted above all to be clear and memorable, stayed...
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