 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 446 pages
...supplication nod ; and my young boy Hath an aspect of intereession, which Great nature cries, " Deny not." — Let the Volsces Plough Rome, and harrow Italy; I'll...man were author of himself, And knew no other kin. Vir. My lord and husband ! Cor. These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome. Vir. The sorrow, that delivers... | |
 | Roy Porter - 1997 - 304 pages
...self-fashioning. SELF AND SELFHOOD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Jonathan Sawday I'll never Be such a gosling as to obey instinct, but stand As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin. Shakespeare, Coriolanm (c. 1609) The World (I mean not the earth onely . . . but all the Universe,... | |
 | James Cunningham - 1997 - 252 pages
...supplication nod, and my young boy Hath an aspect of intercession which Great nature cries "Deny not." — Let the Volsces Plough Rome and harrow Italy! I'll...man were author of himself And knew no other kin. (5.3.22-37) This is a speech of inner tension, not self-sufficiency. Coriolanus, on the brink of taking... | |
 | Roy Porter - 1997 - 304 pages
...SELFHOOD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Jonathan Sawdav I'll never Be such a gosling as to ohey instinct. hut stand As if a man were author of himself. And knew no other kin. Shakespeare. Coriolanus (c. 1609l The World (I mean not the earth onely . . . hut all the Universe.... | |
 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 pages
...be, at last, no truly "immortal" authority. Frost says, with Shakespeare's Coriolanus: "I'll . . . stand / As if a man were author of himself / And knew no other kin" (S-3-35-36). But he says it with the ironic awareness that no such splendid autonomy is possible. The... | |
 | John Ripley - 1998 - 444 pages
...politics divorced from principle, however wrongheaded and inhumane the principle, and determined to behave "As if a man were author of himself, / And knew no other kin" (5.3.36-37), he finds himself betrayed by his society and eventually its betrayer. A social and political... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pages
...supplication nod; and my young boy Hath an aspect of intercession, which Great nature cries, "Deny not." Let the Volsces Plough Rome and harrow Italy, I'll...man were author of himself And knew no other kin. (5.3.28-37) The gap between instinct and role opens wide. Coriolanus is reduced to the admission, not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...boy 31 Hath an aspect of intercession which 32 Great nature cries, "Deny not!" Let the Volsces Plow Rome and harrow Italy! I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand 35 As if a man were author of himself And knew no other kin. V1RGILIA My lord and husband! CORIOLANUS... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 426 pages
...note the extent of his modifications of the "Ye Elues of hils" speech. Shakespeure's Ghost Writers As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin. — Coriolanus 5.3.36-37 .i Who is the author of Shakespeare's plays? To many members of the profession,... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...about parents and children, as are Romeo and Juliet and even Coriolanus, whose title-character tries to 'stand | As if a man were author of himself | And knew no other kin' (5. 3. 35—7). Shakespeare, like some of his contemporaries, sometimes disregarded the criterion of... | |
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I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin. 
