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" Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land... "
The Dramatic Works of David Garrick: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author - Page 300
by David Garrick - 1798 - 823 pages
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English Literature for AQA A

Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - 2000 - 196 pages
...bereft of beauty; And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy...thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms,...
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Man and Wife in America: A History

Hendrik Hartog - 2002 - 430 pages
...of Katherine, the former shrew lectures her flighty sister on why a wife ought to obey her husband: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy...thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms,...
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The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty no Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee 153 And for thy maintenance; commits his body To painful labor both by sea and land, To watch the night...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...triumphs over the other women and astonishes all the men. Her acceptance of an institution in which 'Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, | Thy head, thy sovereign' (5. 2. 151-2) may be degrading from a modern perspective; equality of the sexes this certainly is not....
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...of beauty, / And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty / Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. /Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, /Thy...thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, /And for thy maintenance; commits his body /To painful labour both by sea and land, / To watch the night in storms,...
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The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England: A Collaborative Debate

Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin - 2001 - 240 pages
...well-being that she is enjoying - the feeling of being cared for, being made warm, secure, and comfortable: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy...thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance; commits his body To painful labor, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - 2001 - 352 pages
...acquiesce, as she instructs other women - \\ hether seriously or ironically - to welcome their subservience: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy...thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms,...
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Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century: Collected Writings and ...

Wendy McElroy - 2001 - 222 pages
...who ever dare. And Katharina endorses what her husband says when she thus lectures rebellious wives: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy...thy sovereign; one that cares for thee. And for thy maintenance: commits his body To painful labor, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms,...
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The Taming of the Shrew

Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 40 pages
...nothing to say except, 'Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.' Kate's view of marriage Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy...thy sovereign: one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance; commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms,...
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A History of the Wife

Marilyn Yalom - 2009 - 466 pages
...selfless "Griselda" model, she goes so far as to make the followmg declaration to the two other women. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign — one that cares for thee, 1 am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule,...
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