 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark. Glouc: Alack, alack the day! Lear: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (4.6.174-81) However, even granting this appraisal of man's fate to be sound, it begs... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark. / [ Lear takes offhis crouTi ofweeds and flowers.] I Glou. Alack, alack the day! / Lear. When we are born, we cry that we are come /To this great stage of fools. [IV. vi. 174-81] obra incluye no sólo la benignidad de Lear y el resentimiento de... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2001 - 114 pages
...Tom and Kent as Caius — gives a harsh version of the play metaphor often employed by Shakespeare: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (ActIV, Sc. vi, lines 174-175) 21. Robert B. Heilman, The Great Stage: Image and Structure... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...child he hears not hunger, fear, need, frustration, or sorrow, but the stark echo of his own mockery: "When we are born we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools" (178 —79) . Nature is made to lament the comic desolation of history.70 The blind... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pages
...irresistible. . . . There is plenty of Shakespeare's stirring battleaccent. But of verse such as Lear's "-When we are born we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools;" . . . there is in this play very little; only perhaps in Hotspur's dying words "And... | |
 | Dennis Kennedy - Drama - 2001 - 468 pages
...denuded world an appropriate moral landscape for Lear, which itself is made to stand as theafram mundi: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. Though he doesn't say so, Kott actually uses as his model for the comparison of Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pages
...know'st, the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry — I will preach to thee, mark me ! When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.' And, finally, of the Middle Temple Hall — the bricks, as Jack Cade would have said,... | |
 | Maria M. Delgado, Caridad Svich - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 290 pages
...know'st, the first time that we smell the air We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark. GLOUCESTER: Alack, alack the day. LEAR: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. This' a good block. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...patient; we came crying hither; Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry. . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. When we next see Lear he is awakening from a drugged sleep. The Doctor has given him... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - History - 2002 - 412 pages
...removed for him, as by a servant) but in the content of his ensuing sermon ("I will preach to thee"): When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (/F,vJ, 184-185) This is a sermon, presumably, because it interprets the well-known... | |
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Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of... 
