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" Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. "
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Shame in Shakespeare

Ewan Fernie - Drama - 2002 - 292 pages
...to this?' (3.2.46-7). But then he apprehends Tom as a revelation of the human condition in general: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou...worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha, here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 33

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...your own. In this particular speech, it's rather like 'What a piece of work is a man' from Hamlet: ' Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, . . . Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself! ' [1n, iv, 99-103] Now I can't...
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History of European Drama and Theatre

Erika Fischer-Lichte - Art - 2002 - 410 pages
...relinquishes his identification with the almighty' Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on 's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...
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A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare's King Lear

Grace Ioppolo - Drama - 2003 - 208 pages
...ladies'skitts. I8 Money-lender's account book. I9 ie his hotse, named for a French prince. Consider him weli. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's tbree on V are sophisticated, thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...
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Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the ...

Mark Allen McDonald - Drama - 2004 - 334 pages
...him, the bodily suffering and the visible extremities of the skies, rather than the soul. He asks: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou...worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated...
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Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies

Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...civilization as he tries to tear his own clothes: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...
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Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy

Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...serve as a visible symbol of man as Lear in his delusion sees him, reduced to the level of a beast: Is man no more than this ? Consider him well. Thou...worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated...
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The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose

Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...animals, but what he has borrowed from them: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself. The point has...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, 100 the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three on's are sophisticated: thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...
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