 | Thomas Laqueur - 1992 - 342 pages
...different order from Mozart's play on the body or the history of representation that constitutes this book. ("I know when one is dead, and when one lives. / She's dead as earth," howled Lear.) But my acquaintance with the medical aspect of bodies goes back farther than 1981. I... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 pages
...No sooner does disaster seem averted, however, than Lear enters, with Cordelia in his arms, howling: "She's gone forever. / I know when one is dead, and when one lives. / She's dead as earth" (V.ii.260-62). The horror of this death seems to be made all the more intolerable by its incomprehensibility.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...howl! O, you are men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should pped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of re (V, iii) King Richard II 86 A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege. And all unlooked-for from Your... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 pages
...where gods give no hope beyond the grave. The speech could hardly be simpler: She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth (259-261 ). Then grief yields to sudden hope, Lear sounds the first of a series of false tonic notes:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...with wailing; or perhaps for lighming looks. That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. [He lays her down] Lend me a looking-glass; 235 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pages
...play in which Lear recognizes that Cordelia is dead and still insists that she might breathe and live. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass. (5.3.262-63) Heinz Kohut once defined narcissism, the narcissistic conception of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack! She's gone for ever. [He lays her down:] I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass: 260 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. KENT Is this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...your tongues and eyes, I would use them so, That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. [He lays her down] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. A plague upon you... | |
 | William Desmond - 1995 - 282 pages
...Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth. (King Lear V, iii, 259-63) The philosopher has no category of Howl. Who then are the men of stones?... | |
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I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. 
