 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - 2006 - 210 pages
...has for twenty-five, ten, five, or even one man to assist in his retinue, to which Lear replies, O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (2.4) Lear's great problem, of course, is that for him, love is quantifiable; and its quantity can... | |
 | Arjun Chaudhuri - 2006 - 183 pages
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 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 pages
...answered Regan's question: "What need one?" by insisting on the precedence of culture over nature: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (2.2.453-56) But now, in act 3, contenancing the naked beggar Tom, the hierarchy is reversed. Culture,... | |
 | D. Vaver - 2006 - 314 pages
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 | Ernest Van Den Haag - 386 pages
...his courtiers were functionally unnecessary, a luxury, Lear rightly, though in vain, entreated: Oh, 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. Turning directly to Regan, Lear averred: Thou art a lady. If only to go... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro - 2006 - 1092 pages
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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... 
