 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...realm (because Kent, the loyal squire, will follow his master, the dead King Lear into his grave): "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak...young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long" (King Lear Quarto 5.3.318-21). King Lear ends in utter resignation. For one should not forget: these... | |
 | Julie Sanders - Drama - 2001 - 274 pages
...Daddy. (370) In many ways the tone echoes the melancholic resignation of Edgar at the end of Lear: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.322-5) The real clue may lie in the expression or declaration 'Speak what we feel, not what we... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...uncertainty: Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. Edgar. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (v, iii, 321-6) There is no emphasis on the restoration of order and no expressed hope in the future.... | |
 | Janet Hill - Drama - 2002 - 266 pages
...in private grief, Kent cannot help (5.3.320-1). Edgar is perhaps left alone to speak the epilogue: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.324-7) But his words are inadequate. I agree with Peter Brook's assessment of them as "trite,"... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - History - 2002 - 412 pages
...tragedy ends with Edgar's words - in another quarto given to Albany - which leave the future open: weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V, 3, 322-5) The only certainty is that an epoch has come to an end and it is final. The ending of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...sustain. Kent I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: My master calls, and I must not say no. Albany The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Exeunt carrying the bodies... | |
 | Graham Holderness - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...romantic retirement. The closing lines of the play familiar to us from modern editions as Edgar's: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long 10. - for a century and a half reappeared in a radically altered form, though still spoken (as in the... | |
 | Gordon Warme, Gordon Warme M. D. - Medical - 2003 - 385 pages
...the ambivalence in the second line) seem — but only seem — to vindicate Cordelia's dead honesty. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...what we ought to say: The oldest hath borne most: we chat are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long, [v.iii.323-326] But Edgar is speaking ceremonially,... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - Drama - 2003 - 208 pages
...sustain. KENT I have a journey,- sir, shortly to go; My master calls, and I must not say no. EDGAR The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. [Exeunt with a dead march21... | |
 | Darryl Accone - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 300 pages
...to the sky. Here, Giddy and Julie thought, it was as if they were living all under heaven. EPILOGUE The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. - King Lear, Act V, Scene iii, lines 325 to 328 On holidays at the coast, Ah Leong would stand looking... | |
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The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
