 | John Jones - 1999 - 310 pages
...father, she pertinently asks him: Why have my sisters husbands if they say They love you all? Haply when I shall wed That lord whose hand must take my...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (History, i. 91-6) Hers is one of those speeches that end strongly, with a punch line, or rather half-line... | |
 | Charles R. Bambach - 1995 - 316 pages
...(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980], pp. 41-60. " Without the form of justice": King Lear 195 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry...never marry like my sisters, [To love my father all]. (95-I04)7 She wants to be judged by her deeds rather than by her words, since, as she says later in... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1995 - 208 pages
...born" (.Measure for Measure 3.1.190-91), Cordelia defends patrilineage, stating clearly, "Happily, when I shall wed, / That lord whose hand must take...carry / Half my love with him, half my care and duty" (1.1.100-02). Given the conventional nature of Cordelia's silence, backed as it is by verbal assurances,... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1996 - 228 pages
...love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.8 Since the obedience and dutiful dependency expected of female kin is designated 'love', regardless... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 pages
...replies in similarly resolute terms: Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (Ln. i. 99-104) Goneril and Regan, so quick and glib in their own assurances of filial devotion, are... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...father to ridicule. Some of the pressure that works on her is apparent in the following remark: Happily, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (1.1.100-104) Bradley observes that this statement "perverts the truth when it implies that to give... | |
 | Mike Royston - 1998 - 246 pages
...if they say They love you all? Haply8, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight9 shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and...never marry like my sisters To love my father all. But goes thy heart with this? Ay, good my lord. So young, and so untender? So young, my lord, and true.... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pages
...love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (Ii94-103) In listing what Lear has done for her and her corresponding feelings, Cordelia falls into... | |
 | Clement Greenberg - 2000 - 251 pages
...Cordelia means when she says: ... Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. It's Lear's folly to want to hold on to and possess his offspring. Cordelia's view of marriage is almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, 100 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry 101 Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure...my sisters, [To love my father all.] LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay, my good lord. LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young,... | |
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Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. 
