 | Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 pages
...molten lead. (Act IV, Sc. vi, lines 43-45) and Kent's remark to Edgar, again in reference to Lear: O let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (Act V, Sc. iii, lines 287-289) Of equal importance are images of clothes. In the opening scene all... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 pages
...Fool, his sad work done, has long since vanished. When someone tries to stir Lear to life, Kent says, "He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer," and hints that he himself will soon be following him. But it is of course Cordelia's death — within... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...balm of hurt minds. Macbeth (v. iii. 22) cries: 'I have lived long enough.' And Kent in King Lear: Vex not his ghost! O let him pass! He hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (v. iii. 315) And Timon: My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings... | |
 | Gale K. Larson, MaryAnn Krajnik Crawford - 2002 - 284 pages
...them well before her statement. Moments after King Lear dies, at the end of the play, Kent declares, "Vex not his ghost. O. let him pass! He hates him...rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer." Lear's sufferings have been so great, and dramatized so stunningly, that audiences readily agree with... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 pages
...reunite them. And the sense in which we are to understand this is clearly set forth in Kent's next words: Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (5.3.289-91) That is, Edgar should not attempt to detain Lear in this world, but allow his spirit to... | |
 | Gisèle Venet - 2002 - 350 pages
...18. Le Roi Lear, V, III, 190 : «'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief» ; V, III, 288-289 : «he hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer». le «mérite»19, pas de discontinuité entre le «droit naturel» à la succession et l'intériorisation... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1989 - 372 pages
...Monday 10: April 1809. The Earl of Kent in Shakespeare's King Lear said not more truly that You say He hates him; That would upon the Rack of this tough World Stretch him out longer Yet Kent's next Speech and his last come closer to my Heart, perhaps my Destination. 1 —Well! no... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...'and that is why' or ' in that'). If we put beside these the image used by Kent, 'he hates him much / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer', it is clear that the common idea of the incommensurateness of the suffering body to what it has to... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2003 - 156 pages
...(L2.27481, 291-93). 12 "With a smoother song / Than this rough world": Probably a conflation of Kent's "O, let him pass! He hates him / That would upon the...rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer," in King Lear (5. 3.313-15), and Prospero's adjuration of "this rough magic" in Tp (5.L50). The third... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 286 pages
...Tale 3.2.173). So, though we may never know whether he met Campion, we can guess how much he hated 'him ... That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer' (Lear 5.3.312). Shakespeare had reason to fear to 'speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak... | |
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Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. 
