 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...Lear', p. 377. probably in late 1603 or early 1604, Shakespeare had already alluded to double eclipses: Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration . (5.2.108—10) Eclipses were a topic of much... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...scattering the Turks who had threatened Cyprus. Later, when the play's catastrophe develops, Othello says: 'Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse | Of sun and moon'. In another Shakespearian tragedy, there might indeed be such cosmic accompaniments of disorder (Gloucester... | |
 | Paul Robeson - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 646 pages
...arose: how make personal and convincing such lines as "When I love th.ee not chaos is come again," "Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe should yawn at alteration," or, "It is the very error of the moon — she... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...false, O then heaven mocks itself," or to say, in later confirmation of this prediction, O heavy hour! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration. The plot of jealousy, which derives from its protagonist's... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 322 pages
...themselves blaze forth the death of princes;6 but Othello's exaggerated grief-stricken declaration Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.7 10 145 . ssxvii Eclipses and conjunctions certainly... | |
 | Gregary Joseph Racz - Literature and society - 2003 - 204 pages
...example, in his Spanish-language version of Virginia Woolf s Orlando (1968), in which Borges leaves "Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse/ Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe/ Should yawn..." from Othello in its original English (37). In this case,... | |
 | Charles Altieri - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...Othello's realization of how the magnitude of his crime swallows up subjective being: "Oh heavy hour! / Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse / Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe / Did yawn at alteration" (5.2..97~ioi). If this sounds mystical, the reader... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - Drama - 2004 - 212 pages
...speak to my wife. My wife! My wife! What wife? I have no wife. 100 Oh, insupportable! Oh heavy hour! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration. EMILIA [Off-stage] I do beseech you That I may... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...harmed not me" (3.3.343-44); "My wife, my wife! What wife? I ha' no wife. O insupportable, O heavy hour! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that th'affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration" (5.2.106-10). His suspicion initially divorced... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - Fiction - 2005 - 1028 pages
...there too. Ruin and death, he thought, cover all. The life of man ends in the grave. Worms devour us. Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn Even as he said this a star of some pallor rose in his memory.... | |
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Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration. 
