 | Mark Krupnick - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 383 pages
...as a person deprived of all appurtenances: "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. . . . Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,... | |
 | John Holloway - Art - 2005 - 208 pages
...no more than this? Consider him well. [this 'him' means Edgar as much as man in general] Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on us are sophisticated ! Thou are the thing itself: unaccommodated... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...scene, seeing the naked Bedlam beggar, he asks: 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; unaccommodated... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 340 pages
...uncover'd 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 are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 340 pages
...uncover'd 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 are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated... | |
 | Terence Hawkes - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 232 pages
...with an appearance of ceremony and pomp : 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. (Ill, iv, 100 ff.) The almost-naked Edgar causes Lear to recognize his own merely... | |
 | Martin Lings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 228 pages
...banishment from the world is personified by Edgar in the extremity of his destitution. As Lear says to him: Thou owest 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 are the thing itself; unaccommodated... | |
 | David Rosen - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 224 pages
...uncover'd 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 are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated... | |
 | Elaine B. Safer - Literary Criticism - 2012 - 232 pages
...honest son, Edgar, naked and smeared with mud: "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 . . . unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...himself mirrored in the transformation of Edgar: 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 us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated... | |
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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. 
