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" Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 543
by William Shakespeare - 1826
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Aspects of King Lear

Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 pages
...moment when Lear dies: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray...Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there ! (v, iii, 306-1 1) There are two distinct possibilities: either Lear dies believing Cordelia lives,...
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On Strangeness

Margaret Bridges - 1990 - 244 pages
...hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray...Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! [Dies] (V.iii.307-11) The manner in which here the course of events dramatically interrupts, and caustically...
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The Tragedy of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...No, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, 280 And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray...her! Look, her lips. Look there, look there. He dies EDGAR He faints. My lord, my lord! 285 KENT Break, heart, I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord....
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William Empson: The Critical Achievement

Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 pages
...hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never! Pray...Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! Cordelia leads him to think of another human being rather than himself. If, as some commentators and...
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The Absent Shakespeare

Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...Pray you undo this button, / thank you sir. O, o, o, o, o," become (additions in boldface): Thoult come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray...her? Look her lips, Look there, look there. He dies. (FF.5.3: 3279-83) Lear is rising, his daughter in his arms, rising toward a spiritual not a bodily...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...see, see! LEAR And my poor fool is hanged! 199 No, no, no life! 300 And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! —...Look on her! Look, her lips, Look there, look there! [Lear dies. 200 EDGAR He faints. — My lord, my lord! 310 KENT Break, heart; I prithee break. EDGAR...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...tell you straight. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray...Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest...
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After the Reunion: Poems

David Baker - 1994 - 288 pages
...hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! —...— look, — her lips, — Look there, look there! ens 'Tis madness to resist or blame The force of angry heavens flame: And, if we would speak true,...
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Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and Art

Timothy Murray - 1997 - 324 pages
...hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray...Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there! (V.iii.306-11) Lear's passing performs the death of sovereignty in soul and method. For his extremely...
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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature

John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...in the end, vainly to salvage some redemptive significance from time's destructive passage Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray...Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there! (5.3.308-12) Troilus and Cressida presents us with Shakespeare's bleakest vision of the fate of men...
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