[lit-ideas] Re: "Patience on a Monument"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:01:09 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/2004 7:21:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
I think it brings us no nearer to
understanding what Shakespeare's audience understood by "Sitting like
Patience on a Monument."
Couldn't they merely have relished the redundancy of Patience
--personified virtue--rendered even more patient by being set in stone?
----
Nay. For the phrase to be _actually_ redundant it would run,
"Like Patience, sitting _patiently_
on a monument".
The whole point that Geary, Chase, and Ritchie are arguing is that there are
different _ways_ of sitting on a monument, and Ritchie wonders which was
Patience's was? (in the collective imaginary of The Globe audience).
Cheers,
JL
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