 | Grace Ioppolo - 2003 - 208 pages
...Condition. To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you? REGAN What need one? LEAR O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous," Why needs not what... | |
 | William R. Jordan - 2003 - 272 pages
...his extremity the desperate futility of such counsel. our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. King Lear, 2.4.264-67 As for the gift and the step into a solidarity with nature, the idea of nature's... | |
 | Eugenio Picano - 2003 - 512 pages
...superfluous flow reserve, which can be recruited by the appropriate pharmacological stimulus: “Oh! Reason not the need: our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous” (Shakespeare, King Lear, II, IV, 262—263). NuclearTechniques for the Identification of Myocardial... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mark Krupnick - 2006 - 383 pages
...care for him? Grief-stricken and enraged, Lear launches forth on one of his many great speeches: "O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars / Are in the...than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's." In the next act, Lear is led out of the storm into the hovel of another figure driven to madness by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...twenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? What need one? 0 reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. 260 Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou... | |
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