"From which Shakespeare play does the line ""and age cannot wither"" her come from?"
"Her Infinite Variety Her Infinite Variety is a novel by Louis Auchincloss first published in 2000 about a career woman of the first half of the 20th century. The title is a quotation from Shakespeare's ""Antony and Cleopatra"": ""Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety"" (Act II, scene 2). Born in New York in 1917, attractive Clarabel Hoyt, the heroine of the book, is encouraged by her ambitious mother to marry ""a great man,"" a man able and willing to make a success of his life. She succeeds in persuading her daughter to end her relationship"
"We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam.</poem> The second line of the fourth stanza, ""Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn"", echoes (probably unconsciously) Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra in ""Antony and Cleopatra"": ""Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale"". It has been suggested that the last word in this line should be ""contemn"" (meaning ""treat with contempt"") rather than ""condemn"". On the other hand ""condemn"" was used when the"
"will age his beauty will never fade so long as he passes his beauty on to a child. The speaker insists it is nature's will that someone of his beauty should procreate and make a copy of himself, going so far as to comment on the foolish effects of ignoring the necessity and inevitability of such procreation upon both the youth and mankind. Sonnet 11 is part of the first block of 17 sonnets in the Fair Youth sequence (sonnets 1–126) and describes Shakespeare's call for the preservation of the Youth's beauty through procreation. Shakespeare urges the Fair Youth to"
"his refusal to produce a 'tender heir' who would continue his beauty beyond the inexorable decay of aging"". Sonnets are often about romantic love between the speaker and the beloved but Shakespeare does not do this. Instead, Shakespeare urges the young man to have sex and procreate with a woman in marriage. This sonnet is the first one of the collection of sonnets published in the 1609 quarto. According to Helen Vendler, this sonnet can be “as an index to the rest of the sonnets"", mainly because it brings ""into play such a plethora of conceptual material; it seems a"
"Sonnet 104 Sonnet 104 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. The youth does not seem to have grown older at all in the three years that the poet has known him. Still, age comes on imperceptibly. If so, future ages will have to know that beauty died before future ages were born. This sonnet deals with the destructive force of time as we grow older. The poet uses his friend as an"
"before even thinking of marrying his daughter, feeling that she is still too young; ""She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride"". However, in the English poem the story is based on (""Romeus and Juliet"" by Arthur Brooke) Juliet is approaching her sixteenth birthday and Romeo is the same age whereas in the Bandello novella she is nearly eighteen with Romeo about twenty. The common English people of that age were very rarely in their teens when they married and even"
"Sonnet 16 Sonnet 16 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is among those sonnets referred to as the procreation sonnets, within the Fair Youth sequence. Although the previous sonnet, Sonnet 15, does not overtly discuss procreation, Sonnet 16 opens with ""But..."" and goes on to make the encouragement clear. The two poems form a diptych. In Sonnet 16, the speaker asks the young man why he does not actively fight against time and age by having a child. Sonnet 16 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. This type of sonnet consists"
"</poem> William Shakespeare's Sonnet 64 scrutinizes the idea of losing his loved one to Time, and views Time as an agent of Death. Shakespeare's reference to 'outworn buried age' demonstrates the idea of his loved one being consumed or worn out by time and age. According to Helen Vendler, it seems that ""the first twelve lines [are] a long defense – by thinking about the end of inanimate things – against thinking about the death of a living person"". As James Grimshaw analyzes the final two lines, Shakespeare substitutes the word which for death in the couplet, adding more emphasis"
"and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hails Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as ""not of an age, but for all time"". Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Shakespeare's works have"
"Sonnet 73 Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age. The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth. Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor: Autumn, the passing of a day, and the dying out of a fire. Each metaphor proposes a way the young man may see the poet. Barbara Estermann discusses William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 in relation to the beginning of the Renaissance. She argues that the speaker of Sonnet 73 is comparing himself to the universe through his transition from ""the physical act of aging to his"
"Sonnet 138 Sonnet 138 is one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's sonnets. Making use of frequent puns (""lie"" and ""lie"" being the most obvious), it shows an understanding of the nature of truth and flattery in romantic relationships. The poem has also been argued to be biographical: many scholars have suggested Shakespeare used the poem to discuss his frustrating relationship with the Dark Lady, a frequent subject of many of the sonnets. (To note, the Dark Lady was definitely not Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway.) The poem emphasizes the effects of age and the associated deterioration of beauty, and"
"Sonnet 22 Sonnet 22 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, the speaker of the poem and a young man are represented as enjoying a healthy and positive relationship. The last line, however, hints at the speaker's doubts, which becomes prominent later in the sequence. Sonnet 22 uses the image of mirrors to argue about age and its effects. The poet will not be persuaded he himself is old as long as the young man retains his youth. On the other"
"the Youth did, ""were minded so,"" humans would die off within ""threescore year"" (three generation, or sixty or so years in Shakespeare's time). Opening this quatrain, line 5 begins with 'Herein,' alluding to the concept of marriage and procreation which 'herein' possess the virtues of 'wisdom, beauty, and increase'. In contrast not following this ""plan"" of procreation leads to 'folly, age and cold decay' of both the Youth (having no child 'herein' to carry on his expiring ""virtue and virility"") and humankind. With the phrase 'minded so' in line 7 the speaker is referring to those who hold ""the same"
"the Youth with, ""Wisdom, beauty and increase"". The Poet goes on to add that it would be 'folly' for the Youth not to have a child to which he could pass off these traits. Shakespeare famed for his mastery of wordplay and double-meaning, such as in Sonnet 11's opening line, ""As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st."" This echoes the maxim, ""Youth waineth by increasing,"" an aside of the elderly, with which Shakespeare will conclude his series of sonnets to the young man at Sonnet 126. It has been associated with Narcissus who wasted away as he"
"the lady. The relationship is both ""purely sexual"" and ""utterly unromantic"". However, it can also be said that the speaker is not attracted to the woman because of her ""physical, intellectual, or moral excellence"". Instead, the attraction is portrayed as being ""self-generated, with no basis in 'reality'. Rowse feels that the woman discussed in the sonnet can be identified as the mistress, Emilia. Shakespeare is six years older, and is thus highly conscious of his age. Underneath all the hyprocrisies there is Shakespeare's ""honest candour."" In ""Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved"", A. L. Rowse notes that Sonnet 138 shows the"
"play is based on various accounts of the semi-legendary Brythonic figure Leir of Britain, whose name has been linked by some scholars to the Brythonic god Lir/Llŷr, though in actuality the names are not etymologically related. Shakespeare's most important source is probably the second edition of ""The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande"" by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was written in the 12th century. Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as"
"longer endure. The Young Woman has been executed, and hangs on a gibbet on stage. While Shakespeare sits alone, the Son and several local labourers eat lunch. The Son talks about the woman's sin, also making pointed comments about Shakespeare. The Son and his friend Wally look into the dead woman's face and engage in vehement prayer, jumping and shouting. When they leave, Shakespeare tells Judith about the violent scene of a bear-baiting that took place next to the theatre, saying ""When I go to my theatre I walk under sixteen severed heads on a gate. You hear bears in"
"and the ancient Greek poet Arion, who arrives astride a dolphin. A performance of the ""summer night"" scene from ""The Merchant of Venice"" is given, and then the Queen is sung lovingly to sleep. The ""Merchant of Venice"" scene is anachronistic, since Shakespeare was a young boy in 1575, but Chorley notes in his preface that Scott had also anachronistically used Shakespeare material. Chorley's effort was ridiculed as ""trivial"". In addition, Chorley faced much criticism over a misquote of ""The Merchant of Venice"" in No. 7, ""Scene from ""The Merchant of Venice"""". Chorley's line reads: ""Still quiring to the young-eyed"
"role. The epic comedy-drama is noted as among the most heterodox of classic American comedies — it broke nearly every established theatrical convention. The phrase used as the title comes from the King James Bible, Job 19:20: ""My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."" The main characters of the play are George and Maggie Antrobus (from (anthropos), ""human"" or ""person""), their two children, Henry and Gladys, and Sabina, who appears as the family's maid in the first and third acts, and as a beauty queen temptress in"
"bristly beard,"" ""violet past prime,"" and ""sable curls all silver'd o'er with white."" One last image to take note of is the fact that the only way to defy time is by creating new virtues and beauties. And to do this, Shakespeare tells the young man, is by creating descendants. This fact is shown in the volta, the last two lines of the sonnet, when Shakespeare says, ""And nothing 'gainst time's scythe can make defence, / Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence."" Sonnet 12 follows the structure of a typical Shakespearean sonnet. It consists of 14"
"is in iambic pentameter. It is found in Act III, Scene II of ""Hamlet"", where it is spoken by Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. Hamlet believes that his father, the king, was murdered by his uncle Claudius (who then married Gertrude). Hamlet decides to stage a play, the ""Murder of Gonzago"", that matches Hamlet's theory in its basic storyline, in order to test whether viewing it will trigger a guilty conscience on the part of Claudius. As Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius and others watch the play-within-the-play, the Player Queen, representing Gertrude, declares in flowery language that she will never remarry if her"
"Sonnet 65 Sonnet 65 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. This sonnet is a continuation of Sonnet 64, and is an influential poem on the aspect of Time's destruction. Shakespeare also offers an escape from Time's clasp in his end couplet, suggesting that the love and human emotion he has used through his writing will test Time and that through the years the black ink will still shine bright. Shakespeare begins this"
"placing sonnet 65 in a distinct group among the sonnets presumably addressed to Shakespeare's young friend, because of the strictly third-person mode of address. Stirling links sonnets 63-68 through their use of ""uniform epithet, 'my love' or its variants such as 'my beloved' "". In sonnet 65, the pronoun 'his' directly references the epithet. ""Sonnet 65 opens with an epitome of [sonnet] 64: 'Since brass not stone nor earth nor boundless sea..."" The opening line refers back to the 'brass,' 'lofty towers,' 'firm soil,' and 'wa'try main' of 64. 'This rage' of 'sad mortality' calls to mind the 'mortal rage'"
"lines: Signor de Montfort, Earl of Leicester (l. 40, S.D.), Charles de Montfort (l. 40, S.D.), a nonexistent brother, Potter (l. 2247, S.D.), and Mary, Duchess of Lancaster (l. 1453, S.D.), another non-existent historical figure. All references to Shakespeare's plays, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library's ""Folger Digital Editions"" texts edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles. Under their referencing system, 3.1.55 means act 3, scene 1, line 55. Prologues, epilogues, stage directions, and other parts of the play that are not a part of character speech in a scene, are referenced"
"sonnet. (225) Though it is placed within the ""Dark Lady"" sequence, it has been claimed that the poem was originally written for Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife. This was first proposed by Andrew Gurr in 1971. Gurr suggested that the words ""hate away"" may be a pun (in Elizabethan pronunciation) on ""Hathaway"". It has also been suggested that the next words, ""And saved my life"", would have been indistinguishable in pronunciation from ""Anne saved my life"". Gurr says in his work “Shakespeare's First Poem: Sonnet 145” that Shakespeare wrote this poem in 1582, making Shakespeare only 18. ""The only explanation that"
"as he, the poet, is now. The passing of time will drain the young man’s blood, carve wrinkles in his face, erode and wear away all of his beauty. Time will eventually take away the young man. To prevent the young man’s beauty being cut from memory, this sonnet will be read and will preserve the memory of the young man’s beauty. Unlike Sonnet 2, in which immortality is gained through procreation, here it is gained in the reading of this poem (""these black lines""). Sonnet 63 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed"
"young woman weeping at the edge of a river, into which she throws torn-up letters, rings, and other tokens of love. An old man nearby approaches her and asks the reason for her sorrow. She responds by telling him of a former lover who pursued, seduced, and finally abandoned her. She recounts in detail the speech her lover gave to her which seduced her. She concludes her story by conceding that she would fall for the young man's false charms again. In his plays, Shakespeare himself seemed to be a satiric critic of sonnets – the allusions to them are"
"two other works by Angela Carter: ""The Bloody Chamber"" and ""Nights at the Circus"". Throughout the novel, there are numerous references to the works and impact of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the novel there are three quotations, two of which allude to Shakespeare: """"Brush Up on Your Shakespeare"""", a song title from the musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", and the quote ""How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters"" by Ellen Terry, an English stage actress. In an interview on the subject of ""Wise Children"", Angela Carter"
"will never be another woman that he can love the way that he has loved Bertha. Winzy also discovers that he feels the effects of old age taking a physical toll on him despite the fact that his outward appearance continues to be that of a twenty year old. The elixir does not prevent the aging process, but only keeps the drinker from dying. The story was commissioned in 1833 for ""The Keepsake"", a prominent literary annual which married short fiction and poetry with high-quality engraved artworks. It was one of a number of similar commissions; Shelley sold twenty-one stories"
"line (""Like those Nicean barks of yore"") which resembles a line in Coleridge's ""Youth and Age"" (""Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore""). Poe revised the poem in 1845, making several improvements, most notably changing ""the beauty of fair Greece, and the grandeur of old Rome"" to ""the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome."" Poe biographer Jeffrey Meyers referred to these as ""two of Poe's finest and most famous lines"". In referring to Helen, Poe is alluding to Helen of Troy who is considered to be the most beautiful woman who ever lived — according to"
"obvious truism, Shakespeare's first published work, (Venus and Adonis), described a 'woman's son', Adonis, who refuses the advances of the goddess of love."" The third quatrain begins with the turn in line nine, ""Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,"" with ""seat"" referring to designated area for sexual activity. Here in the sonnet, after many attempts to invent excuses for the youth, he is finally honest about his hurt and can no longer deceive himself. Shakespeare alludes to another of his works here, with the word ""seat"" used with the same meaning by the character Iago in Othello,"
"of Shakespeare using metrical expectations to highlight shades of meaning. Sonnet 71 through Sonnet 74 group together as a sequence due to their dark, brooding tone, and the poet's obsession with his own mortality and legacy. The sequence begins in Sonnet 71 with ""No longer mourn for me when I am dead"" and ends with ""And that is this, and this with thee remains"" in Sonnet 74. Sonnet 72 is one of 126 Sonnets coined ""The Fair Youth Sequence"". The identity of said ""Fair Youth"" remains a mystery. Several scholars point, in particular to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton"
"analyzing these 12 lines, Sethna suggests that the lovely boy is becoming substantially older in years without losing any beauty. In fact, he is increasing with beauty: he has grown by waning, he has turned more boyishly lovely as the span of his life lessens further and further. Sethna believes that the boy's lack of aging underscores Shakespeare's aging, and Shakespeare's aging highlights nature's ability to ignore Time in the boy's case. This is emphasized by Nature's capacity to foil Time's destructiveness. Nonetheless, the capacity can only last so long. Slightly paralleled by A. L. Rowse, author of ""Shakespeare's Sonnets:"