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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... "
Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der englischen Sprache für die Deutschen - Page 427
by H. M. Melford - 1841 - 448 pages
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Proud City: The Unaware Revolution

Amo Sulaiman - 2002 - 232 pages
...for you, Virus. Because, you can't escape your situation of being free. It's like King Lear—'Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs.'" Belinda wanted to stop the conversation from going on any further. She looked around in the restaurant,...
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The European Renaissance, 1400-1600

Robin Kirkpatrick - 2002 - 428 pages
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 pages
...time /Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more' (4.4.34). King Lear registers a similar complaint: 'Allow not nature more than nature needs /Man's life is cheap as beast's' (2.4.267). The advancing Birnam Wood evokes, in a dramatically accelerated form, the mindless relentless...
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Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic

Terry Eagleton - 2003 - 328 pages
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 13

Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...4. Already, just before going out into the storm, Lear replies to Regan's 'What need one?' with O ! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : (n, iv, 266-7) but while this may to some extent announce his later capacity for generalizing his...
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Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

Germaine Greer - 2002 - 168 pages
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Playing Lear

Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...Goneril and Regan press their advantage, and ask why he needs any knights at all. Lear bursts out, O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Where does such a response come from? It shows an awareness of the human condition, a philosophy that...
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A Poet's Country: Selected Prose

Patrick Kavanagh - 2003 - 328 pages
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Violence and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Kimberly K. Eby - 2004 - 460 pages
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A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare's King Lear

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...
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