No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. The British Essayists: Adventurer - Page 152edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...Very bootless. " * * * » Alb. — O see, see ! 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? O, thou wilt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you, undo this button.3 Thank... | |
| Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...the old king holds his dead daughter Cordelia in his arms and asks, with heartbreaking simplicity, "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?" (V.iii.3o8). Shakespeare's view of biological life and human life in particular seems to have been... | |
| Herbert R. Coursen - 1999 - 284 pages
...make sense of what otherwise makes no sense at all, or to articulate questions that have no answers: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all?" Anthony Davies says of theatrical experience that "Our willing suspension of disbelief has no threshold... | |
| Peter Mudford - 2000 - 272 pages
...confusion: 'We are waiting for Godot to come' Lear, unlike Vladimir, is denied even that ironic humour: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? As Peter Hall has said, the greatest art is characterized by clarity and simplicity; and these qualities... | |
| William H. Wisner - 2000 - 138 pages
...slave that was a-hanging thee. I'll see that straight. And my poor fool is hanged: no, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'llt come no more. Pray you undo this button. Thank you sir. It was a moment, quite outside of... | |
| Carla Mazzio - 2000 - 432 pages
...that her breath will mist or stain the stone, / Why then she lives"; "This feather stirs, she lives!" "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?": 5.3.262-64, 266, 3o7-8); Othello's on Desdemona's breath, before and after suffocating her ("O balmy... | |
| Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...252 sd). The grief-stricken father helplessly cradles his beloved daughter, 'dead as earth' (257): 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, | And thou no breath at all. O thou wilt come no more. | Never, never, never' (301-3). The agony of Lear's grief and the gratuitousness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 336 pages
...Leech and JMR Margeson (Toronto, 1972), pp. 215-29. over Cordelia's body of the unanswerable question 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, | And thou no breath at all?' (24.301-2). To its early audiences, the language of King Lear must have seemed very strange, as original... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...all foes The cup of their deservings. O see, see! LEAR And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life? 304 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. Never, never, never. - Pray you, undo This button. Thank you, sir. O, O,... | |
| John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...here as a term of endearment), cries out in his misery: 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?2 (5.3.304-6) It's a question which commentators often try to answer. Samuel Johnson, of course,... | |
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