| Linda Woodbridge - 2001 - 360 pages
...arrant whore, / Ne'er turns the key to the poor" (2.4.51-52). Beggars are but a step above beasts: Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous....nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts. (2.4.266-69) Talk of famine recurs: "he that keeps nor crust nor crumb" ( 1.4.195 ). The Fool,... | |
| Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 36 pages
...Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one? Lear. O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Arc in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Act n Sc iv 18 Lear defies the storm Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...means of his sufferings, and aggravations of his daughter's ingratitude. Ib. Lear's speech. : — . 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous, <&c. Observe that the tranquillity which follows'the first stunning of the blow permits Lear to reason.... | |
| Jay L. Halio - 2001 - 160 pages
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| Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 pages
...Regan's part to directly confront her father, which contrasts with the behaviour of Goneril. Quote O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in the poorest thing superfluous. (Act II, Sc. iv, lines 257-258) Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow,/ You cataracts and... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...offices of nature, bond of childhood" better than Goneril (II.iv.181). Lear cries out to Regan: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (II.iv.267-70) Lear, contending with the storm, calls upon it to "Crack Nature's moulds, all germains... | |
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