...of Cordelia, he utters a sorrow that expresses the cost of having not known himself, ... no life ... no breath at all? Thoult come no more; Never, never, never, never, never. (Lear V 3 303-6) There is an irreversibility to some of the wrongs we do when we betray our depths...

...between the bitter realization that Cordelia is gone forever and the vain hope that she is still alive. "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life / And thou no life at all? Thou'lt come no more, / Never, never, never, never, never" (ll. 307-08). The relentless...

...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 a dog, a horse, a rat,...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. (5.3.306-9) "no, no, no!" to life itself. The finality of Cordelia's death makes all life seem excessive....

...traceless enlightenment is continued forever and ever. - Dogen 19. LOSS Lear: And my poor fool is hanged: no, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat,...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. - Shakespeare Love is a relationship with what always slips away. - Levinas Yesterday's time and today's...

...the delusive hope that Cordelia is still alive to the impossibly bleak recognition that she is dead: No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat,...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! (5.3.262, 289, 304-7) These words, the tragedy's climactic imagining of what it feels like to lose...

...when one is dead and when one lives; / She's dead as earth." As for Lear's last desolate cry: IVIiy should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. In these linguistically reduced circumstances, the two syllables of "never" resound like a grand rhetorical...

...on' At the news that Cordelia is hanged, the brokenhearted Lear weeps: And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? Oh thou wilt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never. And he dies, the last line echoing his...

...their verme, and al foes the cup of their deservings. O see. see. Leas. And my poore foole is hangd. no no life. why should a dog. a horse. a rat [have] life and thou no breath at all, O thou wilt come no more, never, never, never, pray you undo this button. thanke you sir. O, o, o,...

...no more, surround a fundamental question which people address to the cosmos when such things occur: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life / And thou no breath at all." The preacher writes, regarding the abiding of wickedness even in the place of justice under the sun:...

...Nothing Concerning the Same: On Dominion, Purity, and Meat in Early Modern England 7o Erica Fudge 5. "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?": Shakespeare's Animations 87 Erica Sheen 6. Government by Beagle: The Impersonal Rule of lames VI and...