 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who marries Helena as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate: when...defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness."10 In most romantic comedies the young lovers are relatively blameless figures and, in any... | |
 | Marianne Novy - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...this clearly / I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly" (5.3.308-9).35 Dr. Johnson was unforgiving: "I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." Hazlitt seconded Johnson, finding in Bertram no more than "wilful stubbornness and youthful petulance."36... | |
 | David Haley - Drama - 1993 - 332 pages
...be made in the courtly mirror. Dr. Johnson's dissatisfaction with the play's ending is well known: "I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble...defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness."2 Against Johnson's strictures it is usual to set Coleridge's apology for Bertram, that... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...of the stage, but perhaps never raised more laughter or contempt than in the hands of Shakespeare. I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble...by a woman whom he has wronged, defends himself by falshood, and is dismissed to happiness. The story of Bertram and Diana had been told before of Mariana... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...it acted? Not I at any rate; and I suspect that it acts far better than it reads': Tillyard, p. 89. I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble...defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.1 And many after Johnson, whether officially espousing poetic justice or not, feel that Bertram... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...humiliation. He receives no punishment, however, but the love of a remarkable woman. Samuel Johnson objected: I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram, a man noble...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness. (Vickers, v. 114) Generations of theatre-goers and readers have agreed, feeling that Bertram, like... | |
 | 1984 - 460 pages
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I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram ; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth ; who marries Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate . when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman... 
