 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 էջ
...aristocratic Cassio, just appointed lieutenant, a mere classroom soldier, a great arithmetician . . . That never set a squadron in the field Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster. Practical field experience is a legitimate requirement for the promotion Cassio has gained — and... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 284 էջ
...threateningly banal world of feminine activity. In the opening scene he edgily dismisses Cassio as a man who 'never set a squadron in the field, / Nor the division of a battle knows / More than a spinster' (1.1.22-4). 22 Ibid. p. 287. For him, all that the best woman (including his wife) is good for is 'To... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - 2004 - 212 էջ
...a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine - 20 A fellow almost damned in a fair wife That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...battle knows More than a spinster - unless the bookish théorie, Wherein the toga'd consuls can propose 25 As masterly as he. Mere prattle without practice... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 էջ
...a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, 20 A fellow almost damned in a fair wife, That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...More than a spinster — unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he; mere prattle without practice Is all his soldiership.... | |
 | Charles Edelman - 2004 - 452 էջ
...lago's conlempl for Cassio is shown most tellingly by his describing the Florenline as someone battle That never set a squadron in the field Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster . . . (Oth 1.1.22-4) This is but one of several Shakespearean instances where 'battle' indicates an... | |
 | Kate van Orden - 2005 - 337 էջ
...Shakespeare's Othello, lago jokingly discounts Cassio as "a great arithmetician" and "bookish theoric" who "never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle knows" (act I, scene I, lines 19—24), and in Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio brushes off the wound just inflicted... | |
 | Y. York - 2006 - 60 էջ
...expressions of war; and, in conclusion, Nondelivers my commission, saying, "I have already chose my officer." One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, that never set a...the division of a battle knows more than a spinster; this librarian Cassio must his lieutenant be, and I, I! who have proved myself a peerless leader on... | |
 | Katherine Romack, James Fitzmaurice - 2006 - 244 էջ
...all. He is guilty, too, of the same charge lago makes against Cassio in Shakespeare's Othello: [He] never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster... ...Mere prattle, without practice. Is all his soldiership.26 But Underwit can no more "prattle" about... | |
 | James R. Hartman - 2007 - 518 էջ
...truth, a great theoretician, One Michael Cassio, a native of Florence That never set an army of soldiers in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster. But he, sir, was elected; And I (of whom Othello's eyes had seen the proof RODERIGO: IAGO: RODERIGO:... | |
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