O mother, mother ! What have you done ? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother ! O ! You have won a happy victory to Rome : But, for your son, — believe it, O, believe it, Most dangerously... The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes, Original ... - Seite 243von William Shakespeare - 1831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Lionel Charles Knights - 1966 - 284 Seiten
...heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for your...O, believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevail 'd, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. (v. iv. 182-9) But there is also tragic irony;... | |
| L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 Seiten
...heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...prevail'd, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. Here indeed, in each instance, is nobility and genuine pathos. Yet neither of these passages stands... | |
| Paul N. Siegel - 1986 - 176 Seiten
...doing so, he becomes a tragic scapegoat who consciously sacrifices himself to save Rome (5.3.187—89): "But, for your son, believe it, O, believe it,/ Most...prevail'd,/ If not most mortal to him. But let it come." Instead of being eternally dishonored as the destroyer of his country, he gains, as stated in the last... | |
| Dieter Mehl - 1986 - 286 Seiten
...heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...O, believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevaiPd, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. (v.3. 182-9) Shakespeare makes the personal encounter... | |
| Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 Seiten
...he embraces that death with a passivity thoroughly uncharacteristic of him: O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...prevail'd, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. (5.3.185-89) Volumnia achieves this happy victory partly because she makes the dangers inherent in... | |
| John Ripley - 1998 - 444 Seiten
...do ope, The gods look down, and smile in dismal wonder As at one forsworn. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...prevail'd, If not most mortal to him. But, let it come. O Mother! Wife! [He buries his face in his hands then he walks closely towards the Corioli door, and... | |
| Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 Seiten
...heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...have with him prevail'd, If not most mortal to him. (5.3.182-89) Coriolanus cannot defeat Volumnia, "tread ... on thy mother's womb" (5.3.123-24). In this... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 Seiten
...heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...it, O believe it! Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, 189 If not most mortal to him. But let it come. 190 Aufidius, though I cannot make true... | |
| Kenneth Gross - 2001 - 304 Seiten
...heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But for your...prevail'd, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. (182-89) There is something primal, even infantile suggested by the text's "O my mother, mother! O!"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 Seiten
...tribunes, has given her her triumph. He holds her hand a moment before he speaks: 'O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for your...have with him prevail'd, If not most mortal to him.' And Volumnia answers not a word; too well she knew that when she begged mercy for her country she devoted... | |
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