| Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 Seiten
...imagining, 'As flies to wanton boys, are we to th'gods, They kill us for their sport' (lv. i. 36-7): Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass, he hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer, (v. iii. 314-16) But Lear himself, in a much debated last statement, asks for one more button to be... | |
| Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...world to the next. Kent's compassionate injunction explicitly touches on this theme of acceptance: 'Vex not his ghost: O let him pass! He hates him /...rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer' (v. iii. 315-17). Edgar earlier touched upon the same theme as he led the blind Gloucester from the... | |
| 1965 - 144 Seiten
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| Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca - 1998 - 188 Seiten
...Edgar, who "wants to revive the unconscious king" (Lear has not fainted, as Proust says, but is dead): 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) 74. Among the works I have consulted are Rosalie L. Colie, "Reason and Need: King Lear... | |
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