| John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...marriage, on repentance and the "rarer action" of forgiveness, on truth as the revelatory filia temporis: O, rejoice Beyond a common joy, and set it down With...isle; and all of us, ourselves, When no man was his own. (5.1.206-13) Like Macbeth, Prospero, whose magic is the refined equivalent of the ambitious Scot's... | |
| Eric Cheyfitz - History - 1997 - 280 pages
...with the rest of Alonso 's company: Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Should become Kings of Naples? O, rejoice Beyond a common joy! and set...dukedom In a poor isle, and all of us ourselves When DO man was his own. (Vi205-13) The passage suggests the paradoxical or ironic way that alienation,... | |
| Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...the climax. In the closing scene several of the "lost" Europeans find each other and themselves: ... in one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,...isle, and all of us ourselves, When no man was his own.sa And so to Naples and then to Milan. The play fosters no illusion that a permanent retreat from... | |
| Peter Hulme - Colonies in literature - 2000 - 344 pages
...accounting of the events in which everything that is 'lost' is 'found' - for the most part, on the island: In one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,...isle, and all of us ourselves When no man was his own. (Vi 208-13) That 'magic' accounts for much of this sea-change in the play should not blind us... | |
| Robert Samuels - Psychology - 2001 - 210 pages
...when at the end of the play, Gonzalo celebrates the exact opposite of what he had previously desired: O rejoice Beyond a common joy, and set it down With...isle; and all of us ourselves, When no man was his own. Instead of celebrating a culture that is devoid of written language, authority, and social institutions,... | |
| Roland Hagenbüchle - Paradox - 2002 - 678 pages
...einer Reihe von Paradoxien zusammen: Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Should become Kings of Naples? O, rejoice Beyond a common joy, and set...isle; and all of us ourselves When no man was his own. 27 24 Der Gegensatz Alter — Jugend wird gerade in der Restaurationskomödie dominant, konkretisiert... | |
| Roland Hagenbüchle - Paradox - 2002 - 678 pages
...einer Reihe von Paradoxien zusammen: Was Milan thrust 1'roni Milan, that bis issue Should become Kings of Naples? O, rejoice Beyond a common joy, and set...isle; and all of us ourselves When no man was his own. 27 14 Der Gegensatz Alter — Jugend wird gerade in der Restaurationskomödie dominant, konkretisiert... | |
| Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...capable. Gonzalo's pious-sounding summary of events concludes with mention of this induced reflection: O, rejoice Beyond a common joy! and set it down With...isle, and all of us ourselves When no man was his own. (Vi 206-213) Prospero causes this reflection by manifestations of his Art, which sadden, amuse,... | |
| Associazione italiana di anglistica. Congresso - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 580 pages
...spite of Gonzalos seeming optimism: Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice Beyond a common joy, and set...isle, and all of us ourselves When no man was his own (V, 1, 208-16). This relieving speech is bound to be effaced from memory by Prospero's hopeless... | |
| Bidyut Chakrabarty - Assam (India) - 2004 - 192 pages
...brought us hither. . . . Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Should become kings of Naples? Oh, rejoice Beyond a common joy! and set it down With...isle, and all of us ourselves When no man was his own. (V, i, 201-13) Shakespeare has written a comedy which is at the same time serious and light-hearted,... | |
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