 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 148 pages
...Yes, indeed: thou would'st make a good Fool. LEAR To take't again perforce! Monster Ingratitude! FOOL If thou wert my Fool, Nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR How 's that? FOOL Thou should'st not have been old till thou hadst been wise. LEAR O! let me not be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 510 pages
...I believe, scarcely known in England. — ED. Lear. Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven I Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! — [Enter Gentleman] How now! are the horses ready? 4$ Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. Fool. She that's a maid now and laughs at my departure Shall... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...to 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... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...to 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 conies in the second act when Lear finds Kent in the stocks. This causes the... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...monster ingratitude! How seriously is he thinking of taking back the crown? What is unexpected is, O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper, I would not be mad. Is this as a result of something specific - the rejection and cursing of Goneril? Or has he felt for... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 2003 - 252 pages
...hath made me mad' (111.1.147-8). These are lines that remind me of King Lear's heart-breaking appeal, 'O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! / Keep me in temper; I would not be mad'(iv43-4), a fact that encouraged me to play Hamlet's lines as equally genuine and vulnerable. This... | |
 | Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pages
...age, the threat of madness first appears to the King. He leaves Albany stricken with fear and praying: O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven Keep me in temper; I would not be mad At the appearance of the madness of the King, the Fool foresees the destruction of innocence which... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 387 pages
...To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude! FOOL If thou wert my Fool, nuncle, I'd have thee 40 beaten for being old before 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! 45 f Enter Gentleman.^... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...Yes, indeed; thou would'st make a good fool. LEAR To take 't again perforce! Monster Ingratitude! FOOL If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten...How's that? FOOL Thou should'st not have been old till thou hadst been wise. LEAR O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! 40 Keep me in temper; I... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...Goneril: 'I did her wrong." At the end of the act he 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! (Iv42-3) The third great shock comes when Lear finds Kent in the stocks. This insult to the royal dignity... | |
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Lear. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. 
