...thy time. Lear: How's that? Fool: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper: I would not be mad. (Lv.37-51) Nor may we sidestep the Fool's relationship with the developing tradition that looms behind...

...10316 King Lear How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! 10317 King Lear O! troked the air; And though the sound were parted thence. Still left an echo in t 10318 King Lear Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! 10319 KingLear Down, thou climbing sorrow!...

...thy time. LEAR How's that? 40 FOOL Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. LEAR O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! 44 [Enter a Gentleman.] How now, are the horses ready? GENTLEMAN Ready, my lord. LEAR Come, boy. FOOL...

...number of psychiatric disorders.54-266 But the greatest fear is well expressed by King Lear's cry, 'O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven / Keep me in temper: I would not be mad.' The wonder is that so many survivors of disaster recover and learn from their experiences - a theme...

...which appears as the madness that he dreads almost from the moment the devastation begins to unfold: O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (Iv43-44) And yet, Lear's madness becomes, in Edgar's words, Reason in madness. (IV.vi. 172-73) In...

...which appears as the madness that he dreads almost from the moment the devastation begins to unfold: O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; l would not be mad! And yet, Lear's madness becomes, in Edgar's words, Reason in madness. (lV.vi.172-73)...

...departure. To illustrate with a simple example. At 1.5.43-4, Muir chooses to follow the Folio's wording ("O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; / Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"), relegating the Quarto's alternative to the notes. Foakes, however, combines them, while signaling with...

...of him had royalized his state, may he some little excuse for Albany's weakness. Ib. sc. 5. Lear. 0 let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ! I "would not be mad ! — The mind's own anticipation of madness ! The deepest tragic notes are often struck by a half...

...the Fall there is no redemption. Early in the play we learn that madness is something Lear dreads: O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (Act I, Sc. v, lines 37-38) He does go mad, but his madness takes many forms, from ranting at his daughters...

...drive his master mad. At the end of the Act Lear has his first serious premonition of insanity: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! The second great shock comes in the second act when Lear finds Kent in the stocks. This causes the...