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" tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ? "
Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare - Page 155
by William Shakespeare - 1820 - 466 pages
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Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Revisited by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and ...

Andy Lavender - Social Science - 2003 - 292 pages
...Sangare then speaks Hamlet's lines (in the play they come before he goes to his duel with Laertes): There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. There are three closing utterances. Firstly, Craig asserts that the words 'today', yesterday' and especially...
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Shakespeare and the Human Mystery

J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...and our varied attempts at redirecting it. In pondering the possibility of his own death, he says, There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (Hamlet V 2 214-16) This is a major feature of the contemplative's message, as it is of the fool's....
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...experience them as embodiments of tragic understanding: Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave berimes. Let be. (Hamlet, v, ii, 221-6) No, no, no,...
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Favourite Wisdom

Deborah Cassidi - Religion - 2003 - 196 pages
...Thy radiance. Bhagavad C,ila, ix: verse 19, trans. Franklin Hdgerton (1885-1963) I here's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come: The readiness is all. William Shakespeare (1164-1616), from Hamlet, Act V, Scene ii 1 Sir Derek underlined 'The readiness...
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Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance

Lloyd Davis - Drama - 2003 - 344 pages
...directly to the understanding of Kairos described in this paper: We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (5.2.157-60) Here all the components of Kairos come together — an openness to opportunity and what...
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Not of this World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism

James S. Cutsinger - Religion - 2003 - 312 pages
...precisely why this greatest of quests is one upon which everyone must eventually choose to embark. "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." We have explained that this book has three basic Parts because the spiritual journey is traditionally...
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Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick und das antike Epos

Eva Hänssgen - Classical literature - 2003 - 300 pages
...with him, I suppose" (93; ein Anklang an die Worte, mit denen Hamlet sich in sein Schicksal fügt: "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all." Hamlet V, ii, 193-5).42 Ihr Los kann also doch Schicksal, das Geschehen somit doppelt motiviert sein:...
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Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare

Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - History - 2003 - 286 pages
...close to the attitude of the seminary priests as they faced daily the threat of capture and death. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come; if it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all' (5,2.221-2). Campion had written,...
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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

James Michael Thomas - Performing Arts - 2005 - 379 pages
...mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit . HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury. There is a special providence...yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is't betimes? Let be. "If you have a bad feeling about this challenge,"...
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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Lee Edelman - Performing Arts - 2004 - 218 pages
...narrative intelligibility that Hamlet, for instance, defers to when he forbears from deferring his fate: "Not a whit, we defy augury. There is a special providence...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all" (V. ii. 220-224). The falling sparrows of Hitchcock's film — and the film will specify sparrows as...
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