 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...overwhelming experience, an experience too radical to be absorbed by the usual process of mental adjustment: O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (1.5.43-4) Unlike Othello, Lear is so completely uprooted by his disillusioning experience that the... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...fooL Lear; To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude! Fool: If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. Lear:...How's that? Fool: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper: I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 324 pages
...time. Lear How's that? Fool Thou should'st not have been old till thou hadst been 40 wise. Lear Oh! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! Fool The taste will be the same. You know why one's nose is in the middle of one's face? Lear No. Fool... | |
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Lear. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. 
