 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...own troubles, asks if Tom's' How many knights? Gon. Hear me, my lord. What need you five- andtwenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house, where twice so...one? Lear. O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Arc in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2001 - 114 pages
...exposes their paucity of feeling and imagination in his final speech before he rushes out into the storm: O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (Act II, Sc. iv, lines 257-260) Language The language of King Lear is an aspect of the play that has... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 360 pages
...arrant whore, / Ne'er turns the key to the poor" (2.4.51-52). Beggars are but a step above beasts: Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous....nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts. (2.4.266-69) Talk of famine recurs: "he that keeps nor crust nor crumb" ( 1.4.195 ). The Fool,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...horoscope? A5 'Monster Ingratitude!' (/, 5, 35). Is ingratitude always as detestable as Lear believes? A6 O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (2, 4, 261-4) What determines 'need' in different societies? A7 Do you agree with the Fool (j, 2, 10-... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...'The offices of nature, bond of childhood" better than Goneril (II.iv.181). Lear cries out to Regan: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (II.iv.267-70) Lear, contending with the storm, calls upon it to "Crack Nature's moulds, all germains... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - Drama - 2003 - 224 pages
...Goneril and Regan press their advantage, and ask why he needs any knights at all. Lear bursts out, O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Where does such a response come from? It shows an awareness of the human condition, a philosophy that... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - Drama - 2003 - 208 pages
...power in you. I0 Condition. To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you? REGAN What need one? LEAR O reason not the need! Our basest...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous," Why needs not what... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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. 
