 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 228 pages
...makes his owner stoop. Constance — King John IILi Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies on his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Constance — King John III.iv Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott, Maria Graham - 2003 - 336 pages
...feeling, but never, in my mind, more truly or beautifully than when he makes Constance exclaim — Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...with his form: — Then have I reason to be fond of Grief.8 In the course of the day, however, the kindly acts and expressions of my new neighbours, and... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - 2003 - 260 pages
...Augustine's point. She defends her right to grieve, explaining the emotion's psychological function: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? (KJ 3.4.93-8) Alexander Leggatt notes the same phenomenon in Richard II. When Leggatt observes that... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 2004 - 221 pages
...has lost her son she has had a true awakening to the real experience of grief and says, profoundly: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? Grief is no longer great, nor proud. (m.iv.93-8) As we started to rehearse the play, I already knew... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt - 2004 - 430 pages
...insisting on her grief, she replies with an eloquent simplicity that breaks free from the tangled plot: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. (3.4.93-97) If there is no secure link between these lines and the death of Hamnet, there is, at the... | |
 | Darrelyn Gunzburg - 2004 - 340 pages
...p. 1054) reflect Shakespeare's own grief at the death of his son Hamnet in August, 1596: Constance: "Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;" The Buddha raised his hand. There was one proviso: each mustard seed had to come from a house where... | |
 | Annie Bullen - 2009 - 104 pages
...aged 1 1 . His father, writing King John, has Constance, whose son has disappeared, poignantly say: 'Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies...gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his fom He arrived in London and, by the age of 27, had tasted success as an actor and writer, with several... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 464 pages
...thoughts start into images, but her feelings become persons: grief haunts her as a living presence: Grief fills the room up of my absent child; Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. And death is welcomed as a bridegroom; she sees the visionary monster as Juliet saw "the bloody Tybalt... | |
 | Marvin Minsky - 2007 - 400 pages
...Here Shakespeare shows how we embrace our griefs and squeeze them till they take on pleasing shapes: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. — Shakespeare, in King John -5 Mental Correctors, Suppressors, and Censors "Don't pay any attention... | |
 | Katharine Goodland - 2006 - 254 pages
...(3.4.92). Characteristically Constance inverts criticism of her behavior and turns it into a justification: "Grief fills the room up of my absent child / Lies...his form. / then have I reason to be fond of grief?" (3.4.93-8). For Constance, her son and her grief are inseparable. Her grief nourishes her, for it is... | |
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond... 
