 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 192 Seiten
...Richmond in the throat of death. (V.iv.2) He himself is, like Macbeth, finally uncertain yet unbending: I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. I think there be six Richmond s in the field; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him. A horse! a horse! My kingdom for... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 Seiten
...are addressed to Catesby, and they are the words of a perfect Nietzschean hero beyond good and evil: "Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die" (9—10). And then he will be killed. Shakespeare once again makes us face extreme situations — greater... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 308 Seiten
...Richard full tragic awareness and stature. Like Senecan tyrants, he is allowed to die a Stoic death: Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. (5.4.9-10) But the pangs of conscience he displays are made to sound hollow. They are not as heart-rending... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 Seiten
...to the practical results of chance." — "Synchronicity is a Meaningful Coincidence." — Carl Jung "I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die." — Shakespeare "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one... | |
 | Dominique Goy-Blanquet - 2003 - 330 Seiten
...cynicism, while Henry IVs disguises on the battlefield seem a development of Richard's angry lines, I think there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain today instead of him. (v. iv. u-izl The sources report nothing of the sort at Bosworth. This is not to suggest that Shakespeare... | |
 | Rusty Harding - 2009 - 186 Seiten
...make no difference," Davey shrugged. "Won't be nothin' for 'em to follow. Come on." Chapter Seventeen I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. -—Richard III— "After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods, and last night being chased... | |
 | Mark Hoskins, William Robinson - 2003 - 447 Seiten
...when it is not known that the danger will or can materialise.8 2. THE RISKS WE RUN King Richard: 7 have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.'9 As ordinary citizens, we are irrational in our decision-making about the risks we are willing... | |
 | Charles Edelman - 2004 - 452 Seiten
...gives voice to the same tradition as he refuses Catesby's urging him to withdraw from Bosworth field: Slave! I have set my life upon a cast And I will stand the hazard of the die. (5.4.9-10) Hamlet might be alluding to Caesar crossing the Rubicon in 'slings and arrows of outrageous... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 1962 - 240 Seiten
...reverses the order, and so makes more effective, and even attractive, the final speech of his villain. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. (Richard III, 5.4.9^) I suppose dramatic exigency, the irresistible attraction of that last efflorescence,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 Seiten
...kingdom for a horse! SIR WILLIAM CATESBY. Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse. KING RICHARD. ursue the bloody-minded queen, That led calm Henry, A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! [Exeunt. SCENE V. Another part of the field. Alarum. Enter... | |
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Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die : I think, there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him : — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt. 
