 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 pages
...speaks. Ambiguity still: is this madness? Hallucination? Metaphor? You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead (45-48). Half-circle the wheel had come for the Lears who began titanic, tough, autocratic, tyrannically... | |
 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...endless punishment, in which the tears he had tried to suppress have become instruments of torture: "I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (4.7.4648). At first her presence seems a faint continuation of that dream: for he can recognize her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...(King), oped by Susan Snyder, 'King L ear and the Prodigal Son', SQ 17 (1966), 361-9 (see above, p. 12). Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. CORDELIA Sir, do you know me? 45 LEAR You are a spirit, I know. Where did you die? CORDELIA Still,... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pages
...tears are not salt water but a dangerous and destructive liquid. You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.45-48). He associates tears, especially his own, to poison as he explicitly names Cordelia: Lear:... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...How does my royal lord? How fares Your Majesty? KING: (As Lear) You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave. Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (Oh, it's so true!)' repeatedly evident when Shakespeare [Came] to Broadmoor (Cox 1992c) where, for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? LEAR You do me wrong to take me out a'th'grave. 45 Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. CORDELIA Sir, know me. LEAR Y'are a spirit, I know. Where did you die? CORDELIA Still, still far wide.... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...His terror, but also his dream of mastery, extends to that other world, the hellish universe: "... I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scal'd, like molten Lead" (FF.4.7: 2795-97). In the last moment, he summons superhuman prodigious strength, straining so that... | |
 | William C. Carroll - 1996 - 268 pages
...(5.3.320), but it is Gloucester who is physically bound, tormented, and blinded. When Lear feels as if he is "bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (4.7.47-49), his suffering is internalized, the image figurative, though no less powerful or "real."... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...the extraordinary thing about King Lear is that the King believes this of himself- and regrets it: You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave. Thou art...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.6.38-41) This cosmic image linking hell and heaven, fusing the Christian tradition with classical... | |
 | Nina Auerbach - 1997 - 540 pages
...Ophelia, downstairs [on the radio], while upstairs the fair Ophelia of 1878, now a distraught old woman, 'bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead,' was playing Lear" (Memoics, 335). Today, somebody would give Ellen Terry's long illness a name. She... | |
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tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. 
