 | Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - 1996 - 312 pages
...distinction seems implicit in Lear's "O reason not the need! Our basest beggars / Are in the poorest things superfluous. / Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (2.4.265-8). The contrast between superfluities and necessities comes from canon law, which distinguishes... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...unnecessary letter! 10319 KingLear Down, thou climbing sorrow! Thy element's below. 10320 King Lear onne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging...at Althrope This is Mab. the Mistress-Fairy That do 10321 KingLear Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout... | |
 | Jean Baudrillard - 1998 - 226 pages
...in terms of value over accumulation and appropriation (even if it does not precede them in time). 'O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in the...than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's/ writes Shakespeare in King Lear [Act II, Scene iv]. In other words, one of the fundamental problems... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...had been guilty of an insensitive affront to human dignity . . . 'Oh, reason not the need ;.../... Allow not nature more than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's.' We may understand why working-class people often seem not 'oncoming' to social workers, seem evasive... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - 1998 - 440 pages
...(Lear only briefly) the shapes they were. More critically at stake is the meaning of Lear's outcry, "O, reason not the need! our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous" (2.4.26465). 2 The cry offers a distinction between human subsistence and the overplus that makes someone... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...private ownership was essential to human existence. It is more than just a matter of human dignity ("Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" [King Lear, II.iv.263]); it is a matter of human existence. We are human in that we can exchange and... | |
 | Guido Pincione, H. Spector - 2000 - 196 pages
...implicit commitment to action. But then the comparative ease of getting the needs19 Cf. "Lear. 'O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars / Are in the...than nature needs. / man's life is cheap as beast's." William Shakespeare. King Lear, II. 4. 20 CLS discussions of these matters show little awareness of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...To follow in a house where twice so many 420 Have a command to tend you? REGAN What needs one? LEAR 0, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man ' s life is cheap as beast 's . Thou art a lady . 425 If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature... | |
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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... 
