 | John Seely, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her, that she did pity them. This only... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 382 pages
...of my life" (1.3.129), and this story attracted Desdemona. She asked to hear it through, observing, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach...him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. (1.3.163-65) So the action advances through a contest of stories, and the conditions of plausibility... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...wished /That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me / And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, / I should but teach him how to tell my story /And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: / She loved me for the dangers I had passed / And I loved her that she did pity them. [I. iii.... | |
 | Robert Samuels - Psychology - 2001 - 210 pages
...that Desdemona responded to his story by thanking him and saying that "if I had a friend that loved her, / I should but teach him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her" (1.3.164-66). It is clear from this passage that Othello's story and his value can be detached from... | |
 | David Schalkwyk - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...for my pains a world of kisses [sighs - QJ. She thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her (Othello, 1.3.157-165) it fulfils a fantasy expressed by Astrophil: Then thinke, my deare, that you... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...hinting privately to Othello of her feelings for him when she 'bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, / I should but teach him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her' (1.3.163-5). Thus there was aptness as well as affection in Othello's greeting her on his arrival in... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - Drama - 2004 - 212 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. 165 She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them. This... | |
 | Susana Onega Jaén, Christian Gutleben - Art - 2004 - 276 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me. And bade me. if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story. And that would woo her. (I. iii: 133-165) This extraordinary capacity of appealing to and persuading their respective audiences... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - Drama - 2005 - 226 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed And I loved her that she did pity them. This only... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only... | |
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I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. 
