 | Carolyn G. Heilbrun - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 188 pages
...Lear's encomium on Cordelia, a phrase emblazoned in my day at the entrance to the Wellesley Library: "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman." This was an admonition that profoundly annoyed me at the time; today I think it marvelously inappropriate:... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - Religion - 2009 - 178 pages
...believe that his daughter is dead and when he doesn't hear her speak thinks that maybe it is only because "Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman" and that perhaps his hearing has failed him. He has an old man's pride at having had strength enough... | |
 | Carol Chillington Rutter - Body, Human, in literature - 2001 - 244 pages
...'Mend your speech' rebuked the 'Nothing' she wanted to say. Now, saying nothing, Lear approves her: 'Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman'. Of course, speechless, Cordelia is deprived of obvious power to construct her own meanings. Dead, she... | |
 | Thomas Leech - Business & Economics - 2001 - 328 pages
...timid, and to those that are smooth versus stumbling. 37 Is Tour Voice Appealing? What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. Lear, King Lear. 5, 3 What do you notice first about a voice? Typically, our first reaction is to its... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Wordsworth classics - 2000 - 684 pages
...powers of a sweet female voice, and his dislike of the opposite defect. [He cites Lear, V.iii.272 f., "Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman." See also Lucrece, 1. 1220.] 135. Ore-worne] SCHMIDT (1875): Worn and spoiled by time. — Cf. 1. 866... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2002 - 436 pages
...wasn't the audience, who were left pretty cold by Lear's griefs: every time I saw this show, the line 'Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman' got a laugh — in part compassionately wry ('o the poor devil, he 5ii7/ hasn't got it') but in part... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...a blurred moment Kent whom he banished none but Cordelia. And again he reproaches her silence, for ...Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. Then his heart breaks.'1 That is a fine perception. But is it positive enough? Does Lear do no more... | |
 | Ann Weatherall - Conversation analysis - 2002 - 194 pages
...not backward in communicating how he thought women should speak. For example, in King Lear he wrote: 'Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low - an excellent thing in woman.' Advice books have also been forthright in declaring the appropriate way of speaking for women. Different... | |
 | Roger D. Sell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 376 pages
...Shakespearian tragic heroine, so different from some of her comic counterparts, whose father said of her, "Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman" (Shakespeare, 1961, p.215 (V iii 272-3)). When girls kept quiet, this was taken as a sign of maturity.... | |
 | Christina Luckyj - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 212 pages
...saved her; now she's gone for ever. Cordelia, Cordelia: stay a little. Ha? What is't thou sayst? - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee. (Tragedy 5.3.244-8) The pause which lengthens the caesura... | |
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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman. 
