...minces virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; 120 The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...all above: But to the girdle do the Gods inherit, 125 Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit - burning,...

...centaurs, though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit; Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, sweeten my imagination. (F, 4. 5. 121-7) Lear's reunion with Cordelia is figured not only as the cure...

...the pamper'd Steed goes to 't With such a riotous Appetite: down from the Wast they are Centaurs, tho Women all Above; but to the Girdle do the Gods inherit,...is all the Fiends; There's Hell, there's Darkness, the Sulphurous unfathom'd - Fie! fie! pah! - an Ounce of Civet, good Apothecary, to sweeten my Imagination...

...Lear's denunciation of womanhood takes on a similar virulence in its nauseous imagery (King Lear 4.6): Down from the waist they are centaurs Though women...scalding, Stench, consumption, fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! The line "beneath is all the fiends" is associated with the belief that woman's genital orifice was...

...minces virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption [Lear, IV, vi, 1 16-25]. Othello...

...minces virtue, and does shake the head /To hear of pleasure's name; /The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't / With a more riotous appetite. / Down from...the girdle do the Gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, /There is the sulphurous pit-burning, scalding, / Stench,...

...not even "the fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to 't / With a more riotous appetite," adding that "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...the girdle do the gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's," and then lapsing into an explosion of sexual nausea that borders on incoherence with "There's...

...minces virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...Centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle to the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous...

...clouds and chubby putti. 19. As old Lear puts it, his imagination far gone with the sense of betrayal: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...scalding, Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! (4.6.124-29) This dualism of the body seems to me a kind of aesthetic Manicheanism that Shakespeare...

...besteht. So werden die weiblichen Genitalien in King Lear zur Hölle, d Körperhälfte gegenüberstehen: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurqus pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption. (IV .vi. ^25-29) e der idealisierten...