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" All murder'd ; for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp... "
"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and ... - Page 190
by Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 243 pages
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1999 - 273 pages
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Richard II

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 270 pages
...deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown 160 That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps death...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls...
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Shakespeare: The Basics

Sean McEvoy - 368 pages
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Shakespearean Criticism, Volume 52

Michelle Lee, Kathy D. Darrow - 2000 - 464 pages
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Shakespeare: The Basics

Sean McEvoy - 2000 - 282 pages
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Death, Society, and Human Experience

Robert Kastenbaum - 2001 - 522 pages
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot-Endgame

Peter Boxall - 2000 - 200 pages
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pages
...enemies to Pontius Pilate. To be king, in Richard's rhetoric, is to be marked out for sacrificial death, 'for within the hollow crown | That rounds the mortal temples of a king | Keeps death his court' (3. 2. 156-8): it is the fate, he claims, of all kings, of legitimate monarchy itself; and by that...
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A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition

Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - 2000 - 148 pages
...the sad stories and draws a contemptus mundi moral through the image of 'antic Death' keeping court within 'the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king' (i60-1). His spirits rise briefly when he is chided by Richmond, but when he learns of the desertion...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...ghosts they have deposed, / Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, / All murthered-for within the hollow crown /That rounds the mortal temples...self and vain conceit, /As if this flesh which walls abont our life / Were brass impregnable; and humour'd thus, /Comes at the last, and with a little pin...
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