 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...liquor' (2.2.21) and, seeing Caliban, cannot decide if he is a 'man or a fish' (2.2.24): A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man - any strange... | |
 | William Hone - History - 2003 - 476 pages
...he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor John. Were I in England now (as once I was) and had but...monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man. His gabbling voice is to utter FOUL SPEECHES, and to DETRACT. He is as disproportioned in his manners,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Acting - 2003 - 80 pages
...like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest PoorJohn. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...there would this monster make a man; any strange beast here makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lazy out ten to... | |
 | Mark Morris, David Stone - English drama - 2003 - 90 pages
...historical facts which would have been well known in Shakespeare's time but which need some research today. 'Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver...' (lines 25-7) Here, Trinculo imagines himself exhibiting Caliban at a fair as a freak and getting money... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...ofbeggars is in Shakespeare always their defining characteristic: when a 'holiday-fool' in England 'will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Tempest 2.2.29-33). Shakespeare's plays are filled with reminders of 'famished beggars, weary of their... | |
 | Susan Sontag - Art - 2004 - 146 pages
...Trinculo's first thought upon coming across Caliban is that he could be put on exhibit in England: "not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 262 pages
...25 fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; 30 any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - Drama - 262 pages
...life, even if his life has no value — or the same value whether dead or alive, as Trinculo opines: "Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man — any strange... | |
 | Douglas Bruster - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 192 pages
...When Trinculo stumbles across the "strange fish" called Caliban in The Tempest (l6l l), he exclaims: Were I in England now (as once I was) and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. (2.2.27-33) A prospective exhibitor of the strange fish, Trinculo functions as the agent of English... | |
 | Claudia Swan - Art - 2005 - 288 pages
...fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian"... | |
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A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to... 
