 Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 158by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Ruth Barcan - 2004 - 328 pages
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 | Radhouan Ben Amara - 2004 - 148 pages
..."uncover'd body," the naked Edgar, the irreducible truth of all truths, the bare material reality of life: "thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is...art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here" (III, iv, 104- 107). The body is nothing but the place where Lear can observe all the hypocrisy, vice... | |
 | Donna Woodford - 2004 - 216 pages
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 | Frank Harris - 2004 - 332 pages
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 | Michael Rosen - 2004 - 112 pages
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 | Adam Bellow - 2004 - 580 pages
...understands, is nothing outside of this context of human relationships. "Is man no more than this?" he asks. 'Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is...but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art." Lear's rapacious daughters are usually seen as unnatural ingrates and Lear their fond but foolish victim.... | |
 | Robin Richardson - 2004 - 114 pages
...Commentary Addressing Edgar, living in a cave like a wild beast, King Lear in Shakespeare's play exclaims: 'Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.' In context, the words are a moving statement about Views and voices - 5 Bound up in difference The... | |
 | Richard Paul Hamilton, Margaret Sönser Breen - 2004 - 182 pages
...Edgar disguised as Tom O'Bedlam. Lear listens to Tom's tale of woe and is forced into the confession: "Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is...more but such a poor. bare. forked animal as thou art."18 Following the confession. Lear tears at his clothes. stripping himself of the vestiges of difference.... | |
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