| Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 Seiten
...and evoking all the power of a fearful fantasy which appears to have become true: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the guds inberit, Beneath is all the Iiends': there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit,... | |
| Gibson Burrell - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...name; The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the Gods inherit. Beneath is all the fiends'. (King Lear IV.vi.124-30) an I-based eye which, for our purposes, stares back at what it sees.... | |
| Timothy Murray - 1997 - 324 Seiten
...anxiously reveals a similar figure as the repressed origin of all of his troubles: "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women all above; / But...the girdle do the gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiends': there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, / Stench,... | |
| Glenda Abramson - 1998 - 292 Seiten
...name The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are Centaurs Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit. Beneath is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 Seiten
...fitchew both polecat and prostitute; soiled pastured, well-fed Down from the waist they are centaurs, 124 Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 126 Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning,... | |
| Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 Seiten
...the pamper'd Steed goes to 't With such a riotous Appetite: down from the Wast they are Centaurs, tho Women all Above; but to the Girdle do the Gods inherit, beneath is all the Fiends; There's Hell, there's Darkness, the Sulphurous unfathom'd - Fie! fie! pah! - an Ounce of Civet,... | |
| Mica Howe, Sarah Appleton Aguiar - 2001 - 308 Seiten
...alludes to Goneril and Regan as being embodiments of "everywoman," complaining: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. There's Hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption,... | |
| David D. Gilmore - 2001 - 284 Seiten
...womanhood takes on a similar virulence in its nauseous imagery (King Lear 4.6): Down from the waist they are centaurs Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit — burning, scalding, Stench,... | |
| Martina Mittag - 2002 - 280 Seiten
...weiblichen Genitalien in King Lear zur Hölle, d Körperhälfte gegenüberstehen: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurqus pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption.... | |
| Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - 2002 - 264 Seiten
...putti. 19. As old Lear puts it, his imagination far gone with the sense of betrayal: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends': there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption.... | |
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