But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. The Works of Shakespeare ... - Страница 45по William Shakespeare - 1907Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Robert Smallwood - 1998 - 228 страници
...poignant. He seems to be playing verbal tricks, thereby enhancing the devilish delight of his machinations: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends...Writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. (1.iii.335-7) and: And by that knot looks proudly on the crown, To her go I, a jolly thriving wooer.... | |
| Stanley Vincent Longman - 1997 - 148 страници
...them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. (1.3.324-38) Richard's reference to himself as an actor playing the devil is repeated later in an aside... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1999 - 244 страници
...that God bids us do good for evil. 335 And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. Enter two MURDERERS But soft, here come my executioners How now, my hardy, stout, resolved mates, .uo Are... | |
| Harry Levin - 2000 - 170 страници
...deception, he covers up by quoting scripture: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. (I iii 335-7) Of course he overshoots the saintly mark. Lessing would write him off as unabashedly... | |
| Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 308 страници
...darkness, I do heweep to simple gulls . . . And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. (1.3.324-38) Yet, as the dramatic action proceeds, he gradually dissolves into other stage archetypes... | |
| Mary Ann McGrail - 2002 - 200 страници
...describes how he foments civil strife: "And thus I clothe my naked villainy/With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, /And seem a saint, when most I play the devil" (I. iv. 336-8). And, finally, after the dialogue confusion of the nightmare in act 5, scene 3, he echoes... | |
| Iván Nyusztay - 2002 - 210 страници
...them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ. And seem a saint, when most I play the devil (Richard the Third, I.iii.335-38) Seeming is part of a scheme of destruction, in the shaping of which... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 страници
...that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stoln out troubled here with them myself, — The rebels have assay' — But, soft! here come my executioners. Enter tWO MURDERERS. How now, my hardy, stout-resolved mates!... | |
| Samuel Crowl - 2003 - 289 страници
...he polished off his self-assessment: "And thus I clothe my naked villainy / With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, / And seem a saint when most I play the devil" (i .3 .3 3 5-37). Shakespeare's Richard wins his audience by aligning himself with a Bakhtinian conception... | |
| Emily Auerbach - 2004 - 364 страници
...his hollow interior with pleasing words: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. (Richard III, 1.3.335-37) Austen also includes echoes of King Lear: Sir Thomas's inability to see Fanny's... | |
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