 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 141 pages
...thou wouldst make a good fool. LEAR To take't again perforce. Monster ingratitude! FOOL If thou wcrt my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old...before thou hadst been wise. LEAR O let me not be mad, sweet heaven! I would not be mad. Keep me 35 in temper; I would not be mad. [Enter SERVANT] Are the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 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... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 865 pages
...forget my nature. So kind a father! (1, v, 32) To take't again perforce! Monster ingratitude! (I, v, 40) O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper, I would not be mad! (I, v, 46-47) This inner resolve against surrender, this capacity to fight madness and to endure, becomes... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 669 pages
...sea-monster. 10316 King Lear How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! 10317 King me had stroked 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!... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 142 pages
...indeed. Thou wouldst make a good fool. LEAR To take't again perforce - Monster ingratitude! 37 FOOL If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 270 pages
...Yes. Thou wouldst make a good fool. 39 LEAR To take't again perforce! Monster ingratitude! 40 FOOL If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten...before thou hadst been wise. LEAR O, let me not be mad, sweet heaven! I would not be mad. 47 Keep me in temper; I would not be mad. [Enter a Servant.] Are... | |
 | John Sallis, Professor Frederick J Adelmann S J Chair John Sallis - 2000 - 237 pages
...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... | |
 | Jean Harris Hendriks, Tony Kaplan, Dora Black, Royal College of Psychiatrists - 2000 - 281 pages
...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... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 102 pages
...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... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 498 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
