| Frank Harris - 1909 - 452 pagina’s
...talking in order to lighten hjg^ own heart. Claudio makes unconscious fun of the Duke's argument: " To sue to live, I find I seek to die, And seeking death, find life: let it come on." This scepticism of Shakespeare which shows itself out of place in Angelo and again... | |
| Stanley Wells - 1995 - 424 pagina’s
...that the role sits easily upon him. In response Claudio claims that he is indeed reconciled to death: To sue to live, I find I seek to die, And seeking death, find life. Let it come on. (3.1.42-3) To Isabella too he declares that if he must die he 'will encounter darkness... | |
| Philip Edwards - 2004 - 264 pagina’s
...which we are all equal. ' 2 The Friar-Duke reconciles Claudio to his fate, with hope of an after-life: 'To sue to live, I find I seek to die; / And, seeking death, find life. Let it come on' (111,1,42-3). Brave words; so long as there's no remedy. But once Claudio learns from... | |
| Charles A. Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett - 1991 - 248 pagina’s
...or life / Shall thereby be the sweeter," Claudio greets Isabella already resolved to accept death: "To sue to live, I find I seek to die, / And seeking death, find life. Let it come on" (3.1.42-3). Only after establishing Claudio's position does Shakespeare bring in Isabella.... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagina’s
...hid a thousand deaths; yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even. CLAU. I humbly thank you. To sue to live, I find, I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on. 1 Ars Poetica, 138f.: 'What will this boaster produce in keeping with such mouthing?... | |
| Lawrence J. Ross - 1997 - 194 pagina’s
...who dealt with Juliet's sin and repentance with such priestly exactitude. Cla. I humbly thank you. To sue to live, I find I seek to die, And seeking death, find life. Let it come on. (41-43) Arthur Kirsch says that "unlike many critics of the play, Claudio at least... | |
| Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 pagina’s
...characteristically riddling language which is so often associated with rebirth in Shakespeare's plays, To sue to live, I find I seek to die, / And seeking death, find life' (mi 42-3). In a metaphorical sense this is true of Isabella as well, and represents a truth she has... | |
| Allan Bloom - 2000 - 172 pagina’s
...punch-drunk from the blows of fortune may say he believes it, as does Claudio: "I humbly thank you. / To sue to live, I find I seek to die, / And seeking death, find life" (111.1.41-43). This engaging boy is scared witless. This scene prepares for Isabella's arrival in the... | |
| Kenneth Gross - 2001 - 304 pagina’s
...the Duke's words sufficiently to offer a kind of stifled, epigrammatic summary of what he has heard: "To sue to live, I find I seek to die, / And seeking death, find life" (42—43). But something different breaks out very soon, when Isabella shows him a chance for survival.... | |
| Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pagina’s
...consejo, porque Shakespeare no lo quiere así. Vincentio es en efecto lo que 10. I humbly thank yon. / To sue to live, I find I seek to die, / And seeking death, find life. Let it come on. [III.i.41-43] Lucio dice de él: "el duque de los rincones oscuros", adicto a los disfraces,... | |
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