 | Alexander Leggatt - 2002 - 260 pàgines
...behavior of the lords, however well framed their styles, nonetheless falls short of genuine civility: "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.849-51). Civility and the pursuit of eloquence imagined as copious and embellished language, this... | |
 | Ralph Yarborough - 2002 - 294 pàgines
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 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pàgines
..."Many a true word is spoken in jest." — English proverb "Jesters do oft prove to be prophets." — "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it." — "They jest at scars, that never felt a wound." — Shakespeare "If you be a jester, keep your wit... | |
 | Ralph Yarborough - 2002 - 293 pàgines
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 | Manfred Pfister - 2002 - 220 pàgines
...argument, again, with a Shakespearean quotation, this time from Love's Labour's Lost (5. 2. 851-53): A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it. never in the tongue Of him thai makes it... (Jokes 144 = Witz 162) Simply put, thls means we never laugh effectively at our own... | |
 | Nick Rawlinson - 2003 - 312 pàgines
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 | Pamela Allen Brown - 2003 - 284 pàgines
...subjects than does the status of the players or the texts they choose. As Rosaline says to Berowne, "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (Love's Labour's Lost 5.2.861-63). The proliferating jests of cuckoldry do not simply reproduce gender... | |
 | 1984 - 424 pàgines
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 | Samuel Crowl - 2003 - 289 pàgines
...exchange with Berowne when she sends him off to amuse the speechless sick so that he might learn that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). Branagh's Berowne, a bit of a 19305 sport with a lock of hair dangling down over his... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pàgines
...Rosaline rebukes him, that an audience's listening necessarily complements the actor's oral art, that A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it ... (v, ii, 85i-3) In the Phaedrus, Plato also makes Socrates say 'anyone who leaves behind him a written... | |
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