 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...come together to portray the cracking of a noble heart. Or take the climax of Othello (5. 2. 3 ff.): Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter...hers than snow. And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light . . .... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 180 pages
...the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars; It is the cause.154 Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter...hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster; Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.155 If... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...thou weed Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee. . . .(4.2.67) Yet I'll not shed her blood Nor scar that whiter skin...hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. (5.2.3) Without this particular world of voices, persons, events, the world that both expresses and... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 532 pages
...though, is to arouse doubt. He initially takes Othello's metaphor for Desdemona's sleeping beauty — Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter...hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster — (5.2.3ff) as implying 'a piece of cold and carved marble' (pp. 125f; overlooking the purity and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...and rose-lipped cherubin! Ay, there look grim as hell! 86 It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! It is...hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I... | |
 | John O'Meara - Drama - 1996 - 134 pages
...Dialectic of Faith: The Romantic-Transcendental Solution It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars, It is...hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I... | |
 | Max Fogiel - Report writing - 1996 - 118 pages
...text quotation by indenting and single spacing, such as: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars. It is...hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.11 Some may prefer to include the line numbers noted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 324 pages
...l>e<t OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul: Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars I It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor...hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster: Yet she must die, else she'll betray more meo. Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...idealism, is part of the larger cultural vocabulary of the heroics of marriage. 1 5. Cf. Othello 5.2.3-5: "Yet I'll not shed her blood, / Nor scar that whiter...than snow, / And smooth, as monumental alabaster." 16. Interestingly, Othello justifies his marriage to Desdemona by alluding to his royal birth as well... | |
 | Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...for the ensuing murder. Othello: /enters, with a light/ It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars: It is...hers than snow, And smooth, as monumental alabaster; Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light; If I... | |
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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. 
