 | E. M. Knottenbelt - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 432 pages
...as well as Halley's comet. Compare Hill's opening with the first lines of Henry VI (Part I, Ii1-4): Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars. As the first half of Hill's sonnet says, whether the stars, or Halley's comet, actually foretold that... | |
 | James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...Tamburlaine, enhancing the visual correspondence between the two plays Bedford's expression of grief- — Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death (I HENRY VI, 1. 1. 1 -5) — recalls the words of an earlier "scourge," Tamburlaine, in his own remonstrance... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1995 - 388 pages
...terms' (/ Tamburlaine, Pro., 5) — an influence readily apparent in the opening lines of / Henry VI: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death — . . . . (1.i.1-5) clearly transmissible as well. The feeling of 'bloody and insatiate Tamburlaine,'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...Protector; the DUKE OF EXETER, the EARL OF WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, HERALDS, &C. DUKE OF BEDFORD. and a Montague? ROMEO. Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. JULIET. How Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. DUKE OF GLOSTEK.... | |
 | Mary Elsnau - 1996 - 62 pages
...death of princes." And in his Henry VI (Part I, Act I, Sc. 1) is the following: "Comets, iniporting change of times and states, Brandish your crystal...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." We may smile with sophisticated superiority as we read of the medieval ideas concerning comets, yet... | |
 | Sara Schechner - Religion - 1999 - 386 pages
...foes!12 And in the play's opening lines, the Duke of Bedford bewailed the death of his brother, Henry V: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." Like military banners seen in the distance, menacing apparitions of comets were used by dissidents... | |
 | Ngaio Marsh - Fiction - 1998 - 260 pages
...noisily down the circle steps, a seat banged and a voice — Dr. John James Rutherford's — shouted: "Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars— Repeat," Dr. Rutherford bawled, leaning over the balustrade, "repeat: bad revolting stars. I'm here,... | |
 | Hans-Jürgen Diller, Uwe-Karsten Ketelsen, Hans Ulrich Seeber - Drama - 1998 - 246 pages
...dimensions in proportion to his heroism. Bedford's invocation suitably combines the tragic with the cosmic: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...states. Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky[...] (I i 1-3)2 Gloucester in a series of metonymic flashes and epic comparisons offers the portrait of... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1999 - 356 pages
...There is a significant congruity in rhetorical mode and sentiment with the opening of 1H6, eg 1-5; 'Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars / That have consented unto Henry's death!' 9. bowers] eye-sockets (EAJH). 10. tempered] refreshed, gave health to (cf. the sentiment of 11. 44-5... | |
 | David H. Levy - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 326 pages
...there and traced our route while at the telescope on Palomar." CHAPTER Springtime on Jupiter: 1993 Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky . . . — SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, circa 1590 19 E i VERYONE who knew Gene Shoemaker was amazed at how... | |
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HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too... 
