 | William Shakespeare - Acting - 2003 - 80 pages
...fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest PoorJohn. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday...there would this monster make a man; any strange beast here makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lazy out ten to... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...ofbeggars is in Shakespeare always their defining characteristic: when a 'holiday-fool' in England 'will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Tempest 2.2.29-33). Shakespeare's plays are filled with reminders of 'famished beggars, weary of their rives'... | |
 | Mark Morris, David Stone - English drama - 2003 - 90 pages
...well known in Shakespeare's time but which need some research today. 'Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver...' (lines 25-7) Here, Trinculo imagines himself exhibiting Caliban at a fair as a freak and getting money... | |
 | Susan Sontag - Art - 2004 - 146 pages
...Trinculo's first thought upon coming across Caliban is that he could be put on exhibit in England: "not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - Drama - 262 pages
...Trinculo opines: "Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (2.2.27-31; these are, we recall, the only lines from The Tempest cited in Lamming's Water with Berries).... | |
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A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to... 
