 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 972 pages
...begin an impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir ; I am for France too : we shall speak of you there. [E.ri1 Par. Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great, Twould...burst at this. Captain I'll be no more ; But I will cat and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 330 pages
...convincing is the acquiescence of Parolles, when his cowardice and treachery are brought home to him : Yet am I thankful ; if my heart were great, 'Twould...Captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Shakespeare dared to follow his characters into those dim recesses of personality where the hunted... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...on by the flesh ... (1, iii, 26-7) Parolles, after he has been exposed in act 1v, is equally terse: If my heart were great 'Twould burst at this. Captain...captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. (lv, iii, 319-23) What he is - as he knows - is a braggart and a fool. Hunter - echoing several others... | |
 | Bernard Williams - History - 1993 - 276 pages
...illustrated wonderfully, by subtraction or denial, in the words of Shakespeare's Parolles: Yet I am thankful. If my heart were great 'Twould burst at...captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. . . Quiet sword, cool blushes, and Parolles, live Safest in shame. 51 But it is not only the particular... | |
 | David Haley - Drama - 1993 - 332 pages
...parasite to moralize upon the pitiful spectacle he presents in uncharacteristically weighty speech: "Who knows himself a braggart, / Let him fear this;...pass / That every braggart shall be found an ass" (IV.iii.323-25). Parolles' words express a deep fear familiar to the nobleman in his precarious reflexivity.... | |
 | Sylvia Molloy - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 164 pages
...be and to speak through an imposture that he knows to be false, yet that imposture keeps him going: "Captain I'll be no more; / But I will eat and drink,...shall: simply the thing I am / Shall make me live." From that tenuous substance, of whose deceptive nature he is well aware, Parolles (whose name is surely... | |
 | Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 334 pages
...the actor is given a short address to the audience. Yet I am thankful. If my heart were great Twouid burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will...shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live." At this moment the actor is revealed in the absolute simplicity of "the thing he is" before he exits... | |
 | Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...self-acceptance can hardly go further than that of Parolles, shamed beyond words, disgraced, despised, but alive: Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great 'Twould...captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. . . . Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and Parolles live Safest in shame. . . . There's place and means... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir, I am for France too. We shall speak of you there. Exit PAROLES Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great, 'Twould...no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft 335 As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 164 pages
...ye well, sir; I am for France too; we shall speak of you there. Exit [with Soldiers]. PAROLLES 320 Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great, 'Twould...sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am 324 Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That... | |
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Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more ; But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this ; for... 
