Exploring The Waste Land
A note page linked from The Waste Land, Part II, line 118
Eliot's note for line 118
Cf. Webster: 'Is the wind in that door still?'
Commentator's note
Eliot means compare:
Part II, line 118
118) The wind under the door.
to a line in John Webster's play
The Devil's Law Case, Act III, scene ii.
In the play one surgeon remarks to another "Is the wind in that door still?"
when he hears a groan from a man supposedly killed.
See a more complete quotation at the
allusion
page.
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Topics:
- T 134 - Webster, John
- T 62 - Jacobean tragedy
Links:
- L 263 - The Devil's Law-Case - A synopsis
- Scene by scene synopsis of the play by John Webster. At the Kit Marlowe, P.I. website.
Exploring The Waste Land
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File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002
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