 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...Sack, and that too he loves.20 Notice the variations Morris plays on Shakespeare's language: Falstaff's "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men" (2 Henry IV 1.2.9-10) becomes "he is happy in himself, and makes you happy." Happiness replaces wit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me: — Strike up I do here walk before thee like a sow that hath overwhelm'd all her litter but one. If the prince put... | |
 | Matt Weinstein - Business & Economics - 1997 - 228 pages
...about the whole thing. In my professional life, I take pride in the fact that, like Falstaff, I can be "not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." In my line of work, I can't very well protest being the butt of my clients' jokes — at least they're... | |
 | Jutta Schamp - Time in literature - 1997 - 382 pages
...man, is not able to invent anything that intends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me; I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."330 Falstaff bezieht sich teilweise auf Attribute des Älterwerdens wie zum Beipiel der Schwerhörigkeit,... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - English drama (Comedy) - 1998 - 292 pages
...analysis in Segal, Roman Laughter2, 53 ff. <J Cf. Falstaff's famous (and true) self-characterization: 'I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men' (2 Henry IV, i. ii. 10). The Brothers Menaechmus This is Plautus' only comedy of errors. His Hellenistic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 308 pages
...man, is not able to invent anything that intends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here 10 walk before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all 2 1 S and] o; nor F 1.2.0. 1-2 Enter... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - Education - 1999 - 420 pages
...clay-man is not able to invent anything that intends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me; I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. (Act 1, sc. 2, lines 6-10) Are not the history plays completely both, drama and thought, an exploration... | |
 | Jerrold Northrop Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 868 pages
...that 'massive hope in the future'. Directly there came a second theme, showing Falstaff the humourist: 'I am not only witty in myself but the cause that wit is in other men.' II: (statement) i.nJfl (reply) w The Musical Times, i Sept. 1913. This is the source of other verbal... | |
 | Frances Burney - Fiction - 2000 - 698 pages
...man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." 2 1 Falstaff appears in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part i; Henry IV, Pan II, and Tlie Merry Wives of Windsor.... | |
 | Tim Spiekerman - Political Science - 2001 - 222 pages
...way of raising others to his own level of mirth and this must be part of what attracts Hal to him. As Falstaff says, "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men" (2///V l.ii.S-9). As Hal demonstrates in the tasteless drawer episode with Francis, without Falstaff... | |
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Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in... 
