...seeming agreement on the "monstruosity" of love. Troilus laments over the "monstruosity in love . . . that the will is infinite and the execution confined;...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit" (3.2.75— 78). Troilus here speaks of the impossibility of matching poetic hyperboles — "to weep...

...is presented no monster" (Tro. 3.2.72-73). He is more accurate when he goes on to refine his claim: "This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit" (Tro. 3.2.79-82). The "monstruosity" Troilus acknowledges is not, he says, part of a play like Cupid's...

...end, as many have noted. 23 The relation of value to market also informs the politics of sex: TROILUS: This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the will...desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. CRESSIDA: They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability...

...CLIVE JAMES (b. 1939), Australian writer, critic. TV host. Falling Towards England, ch. 8 (1985). 2 ulhor. Pascal's Sphere (1951; repr. in WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Troilus, In Troilus and Cress/da, act 3,...

...sexual act; it also exceeds both the desiring consciousness and the subject that utters its own desire.' 'This is the monstruosity in love, lady: that the...desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.' (III.2.79) The ultimate paradox is that even when words lose their hold on experience, Shakespeare...

...ster," or, if so, it is of such nature as to confirm the extent of his passion: This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the -will is infinite and the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. (III.ii.82-85) Pandarus too supplies an endorsement of Troilus's constancy. "Be true to my lord," he...

...taming tigers at a mistress's behest.30 But then he comes to the real 'monstruosity in love, ... - that the will is infinite and the execution confined;...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit' (1.78). It is at this point that Cressida recalls the hare reference from the earlier scene with devastating...

...Russian poet, dramatist. Our March, sts. 2 and 6 (1917), trans, by Dorian Rottenberg (1972). Impotence 1 This is the monstruosity in love, lady — that the...desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3,...

...conflicts are peculiar to personhood? First, there are those between the desired and the possible. "This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the...confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act slave to limit."43 Second, there are those between the simultaneous awarenesses of living and dying....

...Nothing but our undertakings when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough...monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite 77 and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. CRESSIDA...