 | Mihoko Suzuki - Authority in literature - 1989 - 292 pages
...seeming agreement on the "monstruosity" of love. Troilus laments over the "monstruosity in love . . . that the will is infinite and the execution confined;...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit" (3.2.75— 78). Troilus here speaks of the impossibility of matching poetic hyperboles — "to weep... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...is presented no monster" (Tro. 3.2.72-73). He is more accurate when he goes on to refine his claim: "This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit" (Tro. 3.2.79-82). The "monstruosity" Troilus acknowledges is not, he says, part of a play like Cupid's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...CLIVE JAMES (b. 1939), Australian writer, critic. TV host. Falling Towards England, ch. 8 (1985). 2 ulhor. Pascal's Sphere (1951; repr. in WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Troilus, In Troilus and Cress/da, act 3,... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...end, as many have noted. 23 The relation of value to market also informs the politics of sex: TROILUS: This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the will...desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. CRESSIDA: They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...sexual act; it also exceeds both the desiring consciousness and the subject that utters its own desire.' 'This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the...desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.' (III.2.79) The ultimate paradox is that even when words lose their hold on experience, Shakespeare... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...ster," or, if so, it is of such nature as to confirm the extent of his passion: This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the -will is infinite and the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. (III.ii.82-85) Pandarus too supplies an endorsement of Troilus's constancy. "Be true to my lord," he... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...taming tigers at a mistress's behest.30 But then he comes to the real 'monstruosity in love, ... - that the will is infinite and the execution confined;...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit' (1.78). It is at this point that Cressida recalls the hare reference from the earlier scene with devastating... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 1996 - 270 pages
...more depressing but more self-disclosing utterance when Troilus is in Cressida's physical presence: This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confin'd, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. (ni. ii. 81-3) With this formula,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Russian poet, dramatist. Our March, sts. 2 and 6 (1917), trans, by Dorian Rottenberg (1972). Impotence 1 This is the monstruosity in love, lady — that the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3,... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1999 - 330 pages
...conflicts are peculiar to personhood? First, there are those between the desired and the possible. "This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the...confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act slave to limit."43 Second, there are those between the simultaneous awarenesses of living and dying.... | |
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Nothing, but our undertakings ; when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers ; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the monstruosity in love, lady, —... 
