 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...show when he curses Goneril horribly for failing to obey him: Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make...her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth. With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks. Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...become a vivid metaphor for the quintessence of the unnatural. Lear's curse on Goneril is explicit: Into her womb convey sterility, Dry up in her the...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her. (Lri.iv. 280-3) 'If she must teem', the heir he wishes upon her is a 'child of spleen' who... | |
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Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !... 
