 gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.  Comedies - Page 50by William Shakespeare - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...the soliloquy, and is therefore cited in full: Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th'quick Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take...extend Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel: My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves. (Vi 25-32) The change... | |
 | Sidney Homan - Drama - 1988 - 248 pages
...regenerate his former enemies; thus, he declares, Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5.1.25-30) The storm is not only a means of bringing those who wronged Prospero to the island, but... | |
 | Marco Mincoff - Drama - 1992 - 148 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5.1.21-30) It is an unusually rational sort of motivation for Shakespeare—from the head and not... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1994 - 108 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...extend Not a frown further. Go, release them, Ariel. This is certainly a speech of self-examination. The interpretive question is whether it also represents... | |
 | Wendell John Coats - Political Science - 1994 - 180 pages
...unusual justice meted out in the drama. Prospero. Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...extend Not a frown further. Go, release them, Ariel. My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves. 50 Moreover, Prospero... | |
 | Amitai Etzioni, David Carney - Religion - 1997 - 208 pages
...works 'em, That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. PROSPERO: And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. These brief passages from the closing of Shakespeare's The Tempest contain many profound but controversial... | |
 | J.G. Murphy - Law - 1998 - 260 pages
...works 'em, That if you now beheld them your affections Would become tender. Prospero: And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. 1. INTRODUCTION These brief passages from the closing of Shakespeare's The Tempest contain many profound... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...champions "virtue" over "vengeance" and abjures his magic. Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. The play concludes when Prospero steps out of character to deliver an epilogue asking the audience... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5. i. 21-30) Pitying the suffering of his prisoners, recognizing their common humanity, Prospero puts... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick. Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...extend Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel: My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. And they shall be themselves. (5.1.21-32) Even more... | |
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