 | Marilyn Schroeder - 2005 - 133 pages
...glance around the room. I knew she could see only light and shadow. I read the last lines of King Lear. "The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." I closed the book. The tears that ran down my cheeks were not for Lear. Susan reached to pat Pinon's... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
...sustain. Kent: I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: My master calls me, I must not say no. Edgar: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." (5.3.319-27) The state is "gor'd" in that it is covered by gore; life in England is violent and bloody.... | |
 | Margaret Paxson - 2005 - 408 pages
...••<! -^r ?i ;'• • jt--j •••/••• ?c? --•-•<> -a Afterword ON LIGHTNESS AND WEIGHT The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. -EDGAR, KING LEAR [I]s heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? -MILAN KUNOERA, THE UNBEARABLE... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 2005 - 144 pages
...earlier; and if in a sense they still sum up the play, it is because they carry a minimum of commitment: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. IV There is one other defining "source" behind King Lear, I think. This is the shape of pastoral romance.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...sustain. KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: 320 My master calls me; I must not say no. EDGAR The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. \The bodies are borne out, all follow with 'a death march' MACBETH INTRODUCTION Macbeth is a dark thriller... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 392 pages
...the fates of Othello and lago. The final tribute to King Lear would be out of place in this company: The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall...see so much, nor live so long. [Exeunt with a dead march] Once lago determines on a 'stoup of wine' to put our Cassio in some action That may offend the... | |
 | Francis Beckett - 2005 - 1018 pages
...140 DEATH BE NOT PROUD I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say, The oldest have born most: we that are young Shall never see so much, or live so long. KING LEAK 141 Chronology... | |
 | Jennifer Wallace - 2007 - 193 pages
...learnt from the action of the play and no safeguards or improvements therefore can be set in place: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V.iii.322-5) Exhausted by the act of witnessing 'so much' atrocity and devoid of ideas for action,... | |
 | Janette Dillon - 2007 - 147 pages
...play closes with the characteristic restoration of order, but its tone is crushed and tired: ALBANY The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.14 (5.3.315-18) The play is extraordinarily daring in its combination of tragic and comic strands.... | |
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The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
