| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...impress, Parolles has a self-knowledge that makes him resilient: If my heart were great 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live ... There's place and means... | |
| Ewan Fernie - Drama - 2002 - 298 pages
...only to discover he feels nothing himself: Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,... | |
| George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...alone, speaks with staggering simplicity: Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall: simply the thing I am Shall make me live. (iv. iii. 370) Like Cardinal... | |
| David Schalkwyk - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...by the bed-trick. More significant, however, is his clear-headed affirmation of identity and agency: Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 288 pages
...of you there. Exit [with soldiers] Parolles Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat, and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,... | |
| John Russell Brown - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...indignity. But he prefers to be thankful and so gathers courage and accepts his shame and true status : Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall: simply the thing I am Shall make me live. . . . Rust, sword! cool,... | |
| Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 980 pages
...a new sense of integrity. His may be a debased lot, but he is now in charge of his own destiny: » Captain I'll be no more. But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. (4.3.325-8) As we saw above,... | |
| Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 9 pages
...even a bitterly humiliated one like Malvolio: Yet I am thankful. If my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. (iv. iii. 319—23) This... | |
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