...reascends his throne. Kent's simple eulogy does no more than accept the facts, and proposes no moral: He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. The world is an instrument of torture, and the only comfort is in the nothing, the never, of death....

...acting edition of 1838, which probably influenced them) end virtually with Lear's death, on Kent's words 'He hates him | That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer'. Theatre editions, like theatre programmes, are mostly ephemeral. They serve a purpose at the time of...

...confirmation of an optimistic faith; Kent will always rebuke him: 'Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him | That would upon the rack of this tough world | Stretch him out longer' (F, 5. 3. 289-91). All we know for a certainty is that Cordelia is 'dead as earth'; she will 'come...

...reascends his throne. Kent's simple eulogy does no more than accept the facts, and proposes no moral: He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. The world is an instrument of torture, and the only comfort is in the nothing, the never, of death....

...Lear, when signs of life were seen in the dying monarch. "Vex not his ghost; Ol let him pass; he hate him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer."28 The Second Circuit The narrower reasoning of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals led it...

...(Act IV, Sc. vi, lines 43-45) and Kent's remark to Edgar, again in reference to Lear: O let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (Act V, Sc. iii, lines 287-289) Of equal importance are images of clothes. In the opening scene all...

...Fool, his sad work done, has long since vanished. When someone tries to stir Lear to life, Kent says, "He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer," and hints that he himself will soon be following him. But it is of course Cordelia's death — within...

...18. Le Roi Lear, V, III, 190 : «'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief» ; V, III, 288-289 : «he hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer». le «mérite»19, pas de discontinuité entre le «droit naturel» à la succession et l'intériorisation...

...Monday 10: April 1809. The Earl of Kent in Shakespeare's King Lear said not more truly that You say He hates him; That would upon the Rack of this tough World Stretch him out longer Yet Kent's next Speech and his last come closer to my Heart, perhaps my Destination. 1 —Well! no...

...iii. 22) cries: 'I have lived long enough.' And Kent in King Lear: Vex not his ghost! O let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (v. iii. 315) And Timon: My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings...