 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 410 pages
...virtue and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to'l with a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiend's: there's a hell, there's darkness, there is the sulpherous pit, burning, scalding, stench,... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...refers to sexual intercourse between the youth and the lady, the use of 'hell' pointing on to Lear's But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is...sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption . . . (King Lear, iv, vi, 129) Of lines 12-14 Tucker observes: 'The allusion is (with an equivoque)... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 222 pages
...(Kenneth Muir (ed.), London, 1959), where Lear imagines the female sexual organs as the pit of hell: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit - burning, scalding, Stench, consumption;... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2004 - 608 pages
...punishment... (4.3.29-3n,37-41( Hickson compared this speech with mad Lear's diatribe against women: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the gods mher1t, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulpburous pit, burning,... | |
 | Catherine M. Roach - 2003 - 241 pages
...1n King Lear, Lear wanders alone in the fields, raving, driven out and driven mad by his daughters: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit. Burning, scalding, stench, consumption;... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...why? Lear launches into sex, adultery, copulation, and it leads to the great 'sulphurous pit' speech. Down from the waist they are centaurs, though women...the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption!... | |
 | Hilaire Kallendorf - 2003 - 366 pages
...treatment of women by the exorcists afforded a rich, sexually charged language for Lear in the mad scene: Beneath is all the fiends': there's hell, there's...sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption. Lear is raving about his daughters Regan and Goneril here, for only in the body of a woman is found... | |
 | Catherine Blackledge - 2004 - 352 pages
...that what is below is bad, and revealing his deepest fears about females. Lear, in his madness, cries: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding . . . This angry, terrified view of women, what is below their waists and between their legs, is deeply... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 387 pages
..."Blind Cupid." (4.6.152) Anonymous engraving inserted in Jacques Callot, Le petit passion . . . (nd). there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning,...pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary; 145 sweeten my imagination. There's money for thee. GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand! LEAR Let me... | |
 | Silvia Federici - 2004 - 286 pages
...sans foy, sans crainte, sans costance. (French 17th-century saying about women) Down from the waiste they are Centaurs, Though Women all above, But to...girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; There is hell, there is darkness, There is the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption.... | |
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With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends': there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption.... 
