 | Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...dedication? It may well be all of these but WS suggests another ingredient- A cool head, in adversity. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad ! [King Lear I v 43] Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? [Julius Caesar I v ii 40] Down, down... | |
 | 232 pages
...tempestuous and he verges on the point of madness; he appears to be under forces other than himself: "O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! / keep me in temper; I would not be mad" (1 .v:38-39). When Cornwall challenges Kent on the question of his moral uprightness, the latter defends... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 980 pages
...come gradually, that's another thing that's in the text. There are these quotable quotes, like "Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad." He's not praying to heaven. He's saying to himself, "Don't lose it," trying to tamp down his own terrible... | |
 | Don Ross, David Spurrett, Harold Kincaid - Philosophy - 2007 - 381 pages
...hold on perception. Any reality, no matter how bizarre, is better than no reality. As King Lear says: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven, Keep me in temper: I would not be mad. (I,v) Civil Schizophrenia So far this discussion has circulated through several aspects of a single... | |
 | O. M. Høystad - History - 2007 - 268 pages
...acknowledge - himself. Nor to accede to this divine imperative is indeed madness, and leads to madness: 'O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! . . . Keep me in temper, I would not be mad!' Lear believes wits and truth are something he himself can decide on. But the person who places himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2007 - 260 pages
...beaten for being old before thy time. 35 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.18 I would not19 be mad! 1 1 on 12 receptacle, covering, sheath, box 13 natural disposition... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...510To take't again ie, his royal authority 511 perforce hy force; hy constraint of necessity Fool. If thou wert my Fool, Nuncle, I'd have thee beaten...How's that? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. 45 Lear. O, let me not be mad,512 not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper;513... | |
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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. 
