 | Paul Martin, Martin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 378 pages
...Lear is reconciled with her. On discovering Cordelia's body, Lear gives vent to his crushing grief: Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!...I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. Then Lear drops down dead. Trouble, strife and sickness Intense emotion usually... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's...glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, 268 Why then she lives. 269 KENT Is this the promised end? EDGAR Or image of that horror? 270 ALBANY... | |
 | Charles H. Frey - Drama - 1999 - 228 pages
...he has devised. Instead, Shakespeare gives to Lear a speech of remarkable anger, despair, and hope: Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! Had I...I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass; If that her breath will mist or stain... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...tempering Lear's assertiveness. In Anzai's translation, the imperative, exclamation, and declaration in 'Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones....I'd use them so | That heaven's vault should crack' (The Tragedy of King Lear, 5.3.232-4) become a series of interrogatives demanded by what Anzai describes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...awhile. [Edmund is borne off] Enter Lear with Cordelia in his arms [, followed by the Gentleman]. LEAR Howl, howl, howl! O you are men of stones. Had I your...I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...4 scene 7 line 72) 7 'We two alone will sing like birds i'th'cage:' (Act 5 scene 3 line 9) 8 'How/, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I your tongues...I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever.' (Act 5 scene 3 lines 257-261) A closer look Following on from the CRITICAL MOMENTS... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...with grief. He killed her hangman, but could not save her. He dies weeping over her body. Lear's grief Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones:...your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...speeches on re-entering the stage, before he goes temporarily out of his mind: she,s gone for eyer , I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's...will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. (v, iii, 259-63) The tension here, and it is the underlying tension in Lear until his death, lies between... | |
 | Graham Holderness - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...our critical traditions to expect from the final resolution of a 'Shakespearean tragedy'. . . . she's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one...breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives (Foakes, Lear, 5.3.257-61) O thoul't come no more, Never, never, never, never . . . Do you see this?... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Drama - 2011 - 387 pages
...I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone 310 forever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's...will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. 315 KENT Is this the promised end? EDGAR 318. Fall and cease: probably addressed to the heavens or... | |
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I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack : — O, she is 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. 
