 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 296 pages
...antitype to 'the shrews of the 188os'; her tears at her own 'unworthiness' and her words to Ferdinand, 'I am your wife, if you will marry me; / If not, I'll die your maid', are to an audience 'a discovery at the end of a century in which the followers of the Dovre poet had... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...unworthiness, that dare not offer / What I desire to give, and much less take / What I shall die to want. ... I am your wife if you will marry me; / If not, I'll die your maid" (III.i. 77-84). Although Perdita withholds herself from the sexual license of the Bohemian countryside... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence. I am your wife, if you will marry me. If not, I'll die...To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no. (3.1.77-86) Many critics have noted the references throughout the play... | |
 | College readers - 1994 - 1952 pages
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Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no. 
