 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...feathers, and of silk to shroud us.7 Compare Lear: "Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2001 - 424 pages
...night and Edgar's fantastic impersonation grip his mind and dethrone his conventional sanity: Lear. Is man no more than this. Consider him well. Thou...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - Religion - 2009 - 178 pages
...battle with it even though it ends in defeat. When Lear looks at Edgar in his near nakedness, he says, "Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art," but if human beings are no more than that, they are also no less the way Goneril and Regan in their... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...relationship to man, prompting him to wonder: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's [ie, he, Kent, Fool] are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more... | |
 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...madman. Lear speaks: "Thou wert better in grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. Lear — Lear III.iv Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...climaxes when, confronted by the f1gure of Edgar as Poor Tom, Lear has one of his flashes of insight: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha, here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...followed by the imperative to rid oneself of them, if only symbolically. Of Edgar's persona, Lear says, "Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,...art. Off, off, you lendings! come, unbutton here" (Ill.iv. 111-14). In "Mont Blanc," the violent weather acts in an analogous fashion, stripping away... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...iv, 99-103] Now I can't remember the original punctuation, but I couldn't make it my own until I said Thou art the thing itself- unaccommodated. Man is...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. JWRM. You see I have a query against that line. DS. Oh, how extraordinary! But there he is naked, or... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,... | |
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Says suum, mun, ha no nonny, dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa ; let him trot by. [Storm still, continues. Lear. Why, thou were better in thy grave, than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. — Is man no more than this... 
