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" Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man)... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and ... - Page 132
by William Shakespeare - 1765
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me, 65 For as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child, Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am . LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not. If you have poison for...
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King Lear

Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 36 pages
...this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Act iv Sc vii 24 Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 148 pages
...this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To he my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am, I am. LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep...
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Shakespeare for My Father: A One-woman Play in Two Acts

Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - 2001 - 68 pages
...prick. Would I were assur'd Of my condition! Pray, do not mock me: I fear I am not in my perfect mind. For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA. And so I am, I am. LEAR. Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 33

Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 240 pages
...his perfect mind, admits to confusion and ignorance about where he finds himself on waking, and then Do not laugh at me; For as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (1v, vii, 68-70) When last he saw Cordelia, his 'sometime daughter', Lear had an inexhaustible store...
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Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

Stanley Cavell - 2002 - 412 pages
...recognition of himself first. Lear's self-revelation comes harder, but when it comes it has the same form: Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (IV, vii, 68-70) He refers to himself three times, then "my child" recognizes her simultaneously with...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 pages
..."I am a very foolish, fond old man." But then, at last, the sense of self coming back, he exclaims, "For, as I am a man, I think this lady/ To be my child Cordelia." Lear's recovery of identity is linked with this recovery of the sense of who she is. "And so I am,...
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Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

Isaac Asimov - 2009 - 418 pages
...this is; and all the skills I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. " Cordelia tells him she is and he says: All poor Cordelia can say is "No cause, no cause." And eventually,...
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Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

Stanley Cavell - 2003 - 276 pages
...recognition of himself first. Lear's self-revelation comes harder, but when it comes it has the same form: Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (IV, vii, 68-70) 45 He refers to himself three times, then "my child" recognizes her simultaneously...
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Shakespeare's Daughters

Sharon Hamilton - 2003 - 196 pages
...to address Cordelia directly, he asks again that the onlookers "not laugh at" his wild speculation: "For, as I am a man, I think this lady / To be my child Cordelia" (ll. 68-70). He has described their bond in its most basic terms, and Cordelia responds with a touchingly...
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