| Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
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| Lee Herman, Alan Mandell - 2004 - 244 pages
...the phrase or why it now kept revolving in my head. But after a few minutes. I found the quote: O. reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs. Man's life is cheap as beast's. (Shakespeare 1974: III. i. 264-267) I wasn't sure I really understood the quote (and I was too excited... | |
| Radhouan Ben Amara - 2004 - 148 pages
...a knowable object, the basis for the orders of knowledge in which he lives and develops: "LEAR: O! reason not the need; our basest beggars// Are in the...not nature more than nature needs,// Man's life is as cheap as beast's." (II, iv, 262-265) King Lear also brings under scrutiny Shakespeare's perceptions... | |
| Sparknotes - 2004 - 958 pages
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| 2004 - 572 pages
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| Laszlo Tengelyi - 2004 - 262 pages
...this is in Shakespeare's King Lear, when Lear tells his two elder daughters, Goneril and Regan: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...superfluous, Allow not nature more than nature needs, Men's life is cheap as beast's. (2.2.453-56) 112 Lacan calls the above semantic shift — adopting... | |
| Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pages
...are marked by this basic human need to belong to a larger acknowledging whole. When King Lear said, "Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (2.4.261-62), that "more" that Lear and the mankind for which he speaks requires and that only society... | |
| Kenneth S. Rothwell - 2004 - 402 pages
...for retainers, the father's retort that only the birds and beasts can live by themselves echoes "O, reason not the need! our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous" (2.4.264). Old Hidetora undergoes his darkest moment when Taro forces him to sign in blood a contract... | |
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