 | Jennifer Mulherin - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...would die for love of Rosalind but 'Ganymede' scoffs at this romantic idea. To die for love? . . . men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Act iv Sc i Orlando soon has to hurry away to keep an appointment. Rosalind eagerly awaits... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...cramp was drowned: and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Rosalind— AYLI IV.i Wilt thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an instrument and play... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...cramp, was drown'd; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was "Hero of Sestos." But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (IV.i.94-108) At the same time, Rosalind confesses to Celia how much she loves Orlando: "O... | |
 | Richard Stengel - Social Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...In As You Like It, Shakespeare mocked the troubadours' convention of dying for love when he writes, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them. But not for love." The troubadours and Shakespeare know that hearts break but they do not stop beating. For... | |
 | Julie Sanders - Drama - 2001 - 274 pages
...instructing Orlando in the realities of love rather than the wornout cliches of Petrarchan sonneteering: 'Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.' (As You L1ke It, 4.1.92-3); or of Rosaline educating the cynical Biron in Love's Labour's... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...with the tart: 'I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary' (2.4.1-3), or Rosal1nd herself: 'Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love' (4.1.1OO).13 The world of high male literary culture constantly receives a shot in the arm... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 388 pages
...Rosalind, in Shakespeare's As You Like It, says of various literary examples of the love-death: "But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (4.1.106-8). So, like its happier counterpart, Platonic love, the path of suffering love... | |
 | Sharon Hamilton - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 196 pages
...exalted a view, she maintains mischievously. The accounts of the tragic fates of legendary lovers are "lies": "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (IV.i.96-98). Rosalind even goes so far as to put Orlando through a mock nuptial, with Celia... | |
 | Steven L. Davis - History - 2004 - 540 pages
...was indeed intended to be serious literature, and Shrake's title came from Shakespeare's admonition, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, But not for love." An obvious heir to Brammer's The Gay Place, Shrake's novel charts a group of hip young Texans... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (IV, i, 96-106) There the disarming frankness of her manner is considerably increased by... | |
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Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos.... 
