 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 65 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come,... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 1996 - 270 pages
...such, it is fitting that he defines the last, after-the-deluge sombre mood with which the play ends:6 6 The weight of this sad time we must obey. Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. {v. iii. 324-7) We can detect in the first couplet a suggestion of a refusal to revert back to the... | |
 | Simon Shaw - Fiction - 1997 - 228 pages
...opinions had usually been right. He had possessed a fund of sense and had been good company personified. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Philip stood alone in his living room, thinking lines of remembrance, while Verdi's Requiem issued... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...storm and a friend and kinsman of its victims, addresses the remaining English forces in King Lear: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (v. iii. 325-8) Here, in accordance with the changed circumstances, explicit retelling - 'Speak what... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - Drama - 1997 - 316 pages
...the final speech by virtue of his position; in the Folio Edgar makes it by virtue of his character: The weight of this sad time we must obey: Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. In a good production, there will be the feeling that nobody quite knows what to say, but something... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin - History - 1998 - 418 pages
...Doughtie's note, 449-51. 59. This same subordination is at the core of the concluding lines of King Lear: "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak...young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long" (5.3.324-28; The Riverside Shakespeare, 1295; emphasis added). 60. Doughtie, Lyrics, 312. 61. Ibid.,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...sustain. KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go. My master calls me; I must not say no. EDGAR 330 The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...much, nor live so long. Exeunt with a dead march. 320 ghost spirit 321 rack a torture instrument 327 gored wounded FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...So it must be Albany and Edgar. The doubts about them surface into the last four lines of the play: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. The Quarto gives these lines to Albany. In the Folio, a virtually unchanged text assigns the lines... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...lips! / Look there! Look there!" [He dies.] The last lines reinforce this hopelessness, as Edgar says: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Will Power The story of King Lear is old and honored; as a result, Shakespeare wasn't the only one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...wounded KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. EDGAR 300 The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...much, nor live so long. Exeunt with a dead march. 300 (Edgar speaks the final lines as the inheritor of Lear's kingdom. In the quarto, Albany speaks... | |
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The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
