 Lear And my poor fool is hang'd. No, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.  The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere - Page 529by William Shakespeare - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...we will resign, During the life of this old majesty, To him our absolute power: you, to your rights; With boot, and such addition as your honours Have...virtue, and all foes The cup of their deservings. Strength, charity, justice, lack of sentimentality are all illustrated here. And after Lear's death... | |
 | Janet Hill - 2002 - 266 pages
...with Lear until Albion cries out, as he realizes the old man is dying. Lear speaks his final words: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should...horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 260 pages
...the robbery, (pp. 138-9) At the conclusion of the tragedy the tormented Lear speaks his moving lines: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should...horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - 2003 - 208 pages
...this old majesty To him our absolute power; [to EDGAR and KENT] you, to your rights, I40 With boot14 and such addition as your honours Have more than merited....all foes The cup of their deservings. O see, see! LEAR And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
...again. Cordelia's too early death provides the only alternative to Lear's life that goes on too long.48 And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should...horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. (5.3.306-9) "no, no, no!" to life itself.... | |
 | Richard Lederer - 2007 - 268 pages
...Nobody used the short word more skillfully than William Shakespeare, whose dying King Lear laments: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should...horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? . . . Do you see this? Look on her! Look! Her lips! Look there, look there! Shakespeare's contemporaries... | |
 | Christopher J. Cobb - 2007 - 312 pages
...Shakespearean representation appears strikingly in a death speech written almost twenty years after Cosroe's: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should...horse, a rat, have life And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.... | |
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