 | David Hawkes - 1996 - 210 pages
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 | Bill Bruehl - 1996 - 120 pages
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 | Richard J. Bernstein - 1996 - 260 pages
...Shakespeare for his understanding of superfluousness. Recall Lear's response to Goneril and Regan: "O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous." King Lear, II. iv. 263-1 9 To be "thoughtless," as Mary McCarthy (who frequently corrected Arendt's... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - 1996 - 422 pages
...Lear argues in defending his right to keep his retainers, need - subsistence - is not the point: O, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. (II.iv.264-5) All persons, from highest to lowest, must possess something beyond need - a superfluous... | |
 | Christine Rees - 1996 - 312 pages
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 | David Hawkes - 1996 - 210 pages
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 | Mrs Henry Pott - 1997 - 652 pages
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 | Kingsley Amis - 1997 - 296 pages
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O, reason not the need: our basest. beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's... 
