 | Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...ever-diminishing numbers marking the merciless and final destruction of Lear's royal persona: Goneril: Hear me, my lord: What need you five and twenty? Ten?...house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? Regan: What need one? (2.2.449-52) This turning point marks the death of Lear's social identity as... | |
 | Lee Herman, Alan Mandell - Adult education - 2004 - 244 pages
...remembered the phrase or why it now kept revolving in my head. But after a few minutes. I found the quote: O. reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs. Man's life is cheap as beast's. (Shakespeare 1974: III. i. 264-267) I wasn't sure I really understood the quote (and I was too excited... | |
 | 1984 - 456 pages
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 | Radhouan Ben Amara - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 148 pages
...himself as a knowable object, the basis for the orders of knowledge in which he lives and develops: "LEAR: O! reason not the need; our basest beggars//...not nature more than nature needs,// Man's life is as cheap as beast's." (II, iv, 262-265) King Lear also brings under scrutiny Shakespeare's perceptions... | |
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Lear. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 
