 | Lee Herman, Alan Mandell - 2004 - 244 pages
...remembered the phrase or why it now kept revolving in my head. But after a few minutes. I found the quote: O. reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs. Man's life is cheap as beast's. (Shakespeare 1974: III. i. 264-267) I wasn't sure I really understood the quote (and I was too excited... | |
 | Radhouan Ben Amara - 2004 - 148 pages
...himself as a knowable object, the basis for the orders of knowledge in which he lives and develops: "LEAR: O! reason not the need; our basest beggars//...not nature more than nature needs,// Man's life is as cheap as beast's." (II, iv, 262-265) King Lear also brings under scrutiny Shakespeare's perceptions... | |
 | Laszlo Tengelyi - 2004 - 262 pages
...of this is in Shakespeare's King Lear, when Lear tells his two elder daughters, Goneril and Regan: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...superfluous, Allow not nature more than nature needs, Men's life is cheap as beast's. (2.2.453-56) 112 Lacan calls the above semantic shift — adopting... | |
 | Susan Gushee O'Malley - 2004 - 346 pages
...court me. 51. Grips. 52. Choice between alternatives. 53- Lack. 54. See Shakespeare's King Lear (1605): "If only to go warm were gorgeous, / Why, nature needs...gorgeous wear'st, / Which scarcely keeps thee warm" (2.4.268-70). 55. The "apoplexie," or sudden illness, of impotent nature and of lives lived astray.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...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...thee warm. But for true need — You heavens, give me patience — patience I need! You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched... | |
 | José Luis Otal, José Luis Otal Campo, Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando, Begoña Bellés Fortuño - 2005 - 296 pages
...Regan in a resplendent scarlet gown which underlines all the savagery and sensuality of her character: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life...If only to go warm were gorgeous. Why, nature needs nor what thou gorgeous wear's! Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need. (II, iv, 263-267)... | |
 | Mark Krupnick - 2006 - 383 pages
...to 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...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... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...Tragic Sequence beggar, a symbol of man reduced to his essence, is contrasted with the fashionable lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature...gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. (II.iv.2<57~9) In the mad scenes Lear harps on the way clothes, symbolising distinctions of class and... | |
 | Ron Scapp, Brian Seitz - 2012 - 270 pages
...guard of retainers, arguing that he did not need them, the King exclaimed, "O. Reason not the need!" Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life...gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm, (act 2, scene 4) In the changing fashions of clothes we see especially clearly the blend of pure gratuity... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
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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 : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... 
