 | Malcolm Hardman - 1998 - 372 pages
...art? Then art thou not a member of Christ. 4 One is reminded of Lear's verse sermon to his daughter: If only to go warm were gorgeous Why nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st. Why, thou were better in thy grave, than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - 1998 - 440 pages
...corrective to our instinctive acceptance of Lear's heart-wrenching lament as universally applicable. Yet, "Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (2.3.266-67) also bespeaks an awareness of the way in which even pins, wooden pricks, and... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...had been guilty of an insensitive affront to human dignity . . . 'Oh, reason not the need ;.../... Allow not nature more than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's.' We may understand why working-class people often seem not 'oncoming' to social workers, seem... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...below. 10320 King Lear 0 reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. 45 The Entertainment at Althrope This is Mab. the Mistress-Fair beast's. 10321 KingLear Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes,... | |
 | Jean Baudrillard - 1998 - 226 pages
...precede them in time). '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/ writes Shakespeare in King Lear [Act II, Scene iv]. In other words, one of the fundamental... | |
 | Judy Kronenfeld - 1998 - 404 pages
...Anti-luxuria Tradition. O, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the poorest things 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... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...private ownership was essential to human existence. It is more than just a matter of human dignity ("Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" [King Lear, II.iv.263]); it is a matter of human existence. We are human in that we can exchange... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...259 Allow not nature more than nature needs, 260 Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; 261 If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need You heavens, give me that patience, patience... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...There are likenesses here to Lear's speech beginning '0 reason not the need', especially between Lear's If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou, gorgeous, wearest (7.426-7) and Gonorill' s I cannot make me a new-fashioned gown And set it forth with more... | |
 | Guido Pincione, H. Spector - 2000 - 196 pages
...needs19 Cf. "Lear. '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." William Shakespeare. King Lear, II. 4. 20 CLS discussions of these matters show little awareness... | |
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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,... 
