 | Valeria Finucci - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 352 pages
...of laughing was the proprium of Man as animal rationale. — Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiosis , 59 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. — Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, V, 2 MY ARGUMENT IN the preceding two chapters has been that... | |
 | Carl Dale Hill - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 268 pages
...to substantiate his claim that the success of the Witzarheit can onlv be judged by a third person. 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it' ( 144). The inherent intersubjectivity of the joke becomes essential in the process ofEvleiebterung.... | |
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...heaven and earth, Horatio" or Edgar's "Ripeness is all," and sometimes portentous utterances like these: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (Love's Labour's Lost V.ii. 871-73) The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth... | |
 | Laura Christian Ford - Education - 1994 - 308 pages
...enforce the pained impotent to smile. ROSALINE: ... Then, if sickly ears, Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns,...continue then, And I will have you and that fault withal. (5.2.860-867, 873-876) While Shakespeare does not go so far as to say that death would be preferable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...ROSALINE. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot ofthat loose grace C (u r 1c ab hXE ,! U-F clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And I will have you and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - Acting - 1997 - 132 pages
...task shall be With all the fierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained impotent to smile. is A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears...tongue Of him that makes it. Then, if sickly ears, Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, 20 And... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...over; for a twelvemonth he must visit 'the speechless sick' and make them smile. Rosaline's homily, 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it' (859-61) is not only good moral sense but a sound articulation of the importance of plain talk in Shakespeare... | |
 | Michael J. Collins - Drama - 1997 - 268 pages
...self-aggrandizement, but to cheer up others. Rosaline hopes that Berowne will come to discover for himself that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). She calls his jests "idle scorns" and twice refers to his "gibing spirit" as a "fault,"... | |
 | Daniel Wickberg - History - 1998 - 292 pages
...from Love's Labour's Lost reveal a notion of the jest as a commodity to be defined by its exchange: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.* From the sixteenth century, when the term "jest" was first used to designate all manner of laughable... | |
 | Eve Rachele Sanders - Drama - 1998 - 288 pages
...draws attention to the men's use of the language of the academy as an exclusionary tactic. But just as "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.838-40), so too the scholars can use their knowledge to diminish others only if those on the receiving... | |
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