...They lose it that do buy it with much care ; Believe me, you are marvellously chang'd. ANT. 1 hold 'st, with peril And mine a sad one. GBA. Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And...

...within which to consider the contrasting speech habits (or silence) of the mundane players: Ant. I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. Gra. Let me play the fool, With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, . . ....

...prefixed to his Apology for Actors. Heywood begins with a conventional description of the theatrum mundi: "The world's a Theater, the earth a Stage, / Which God, and nature doth with Actors fill." But his real purpose is to defend the playhouse, not to describe the cosmos, so he concludes by reversing...

...enters with Gratiano, who also joins the conversation, only to receive the following response: "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, / A stage, where every man must play a part, / And mine a sad one." (Li .77-79). To this piece of unsubstantiated melancholia Gratiano replies tactlessly...

...the moral code of his time — he cannot realize his love for Bassanio).107 Antonio replies: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (1.1.77-79) In contrast to the interpreters of Shakespeare, Gratiano, I believe,...

...melancholiac, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (1 596), begins the play trapped by his metaphor: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (1. 1.76-78) Stripped of its theological context, the orthodox or conservative...

...and destroy, the arts of acting and imitation proper, The Author to his Book1 The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God, and nature, doth with actors fill, Kings have their entrance with due equipage, And some their parts play well and others ill, The best...

...through his self-consciousness about his assigned role and his willingness to play it: I hold this world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. (MV 1.1.77-79) Later at the trial, while Shylock sharpens his knife, Antonio accepts...

...They lose it that do buy it with much care: Believe me, you are marvellously changed. ANTONIO. I hold X è "J 1996 Wordsworth Editions"- Shakespeare William" Wil And mine a sad one. GRATIANO. Let me play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come;...

...History, pp. 146-200. Chapter Three Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris: Theatrical History, Theatrical Kings The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature doth with actors fill: Kings have their entrance in due equipage, And some their parts play well, and others ill. Thomas Hey...