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Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature

Katherine Dalsimer - 1986 - 164 pages
...spirits resort — Alack, alack! Is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad — O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears, And madly play...
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Shakespeare's Soliloquies

Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 pages
...spirits resort — Alack, alack! Is it not like that I 45 So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad — O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears, 50 And madly play...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...spirits resort — Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking — what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals hearing them run mad — Or if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears, And madly play...
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare - 1990 - 292 pages
...night spirits resort Alack, alack! Is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them run mad O, if I wake shall I not be distraught, 50 Environed with all these hideous fears, And madly play with...
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 236 pages
...resort — Alack, alack, is it not like that I — So early waking — what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad — O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears, And madly play...
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The Art of Music and Other Essays: (A Travers Chants)

Hector Berlioz - 1994 - 302 pages
...night spirits resort: Alack, alack! is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad: O! if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears, And madly play with...
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The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book

Raphael Patai - 1994 - 638 pages
...itself to be taken quietly." Shakespeare refers to this belief repeatedly. In Romeo and Juliet he says, "Shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad," and again in the second part of Henry VI, "Would curses kill as doeth the mandrake's groan?"6 The reason...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...spirits resort; — Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking, — what with loathsome smells; ess of mind; — O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears? And madly play...
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The Mascot Book: The Book That Brings Good Luck

Elizabeth Villiers - 1996 - 206 pages
...daring being who disturbed it. This belief is mentioned by Shakespeare, when Juliet speaks of, . . . shrieks, like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. MARSH MALLOWS These familiar wayside flowers are not generally recognised as mascots, but according...
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Much Ado about Murder

Robert Mattson - 1997 - 132 pages
...spirits resort. . . Oh, God, Oh, God, is it not likely that, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. . . Oh, if I wake, shall I not go insane, Entombed there with all these hideous fears, And madly play...
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