 | John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 310 pages
...faced with her sisters' protestations of boundless love to their father, she pertinently asks him: Why have my sisters husbands if they say They love...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (History, i. 91-6) Hers is one of those speeches that end strongly, with a punch line, or rather half-line... | |
 | Charles R. Bambach - History - 1995 - 316 pages
...(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980], pp. 41-60. " Without the form of justice": King Lear 195 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry...never marry like my sisters, [To love my father all]. (95-I04)7 She wants to be judged by her deeds rather than by her words, since, as she says later in... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Historicism - 1996 - 228 pages
...love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.8 Since the obedience and dutiful dependency expected of female kin is designated 'love', regardless... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...by hers, to declare the extent of her love and allegiance, she replies in similarly resolute terms: Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (Ln. i. 99-104) Goneril and Regan, so quick and glib in their own assurances of filial devotion, are... | |
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Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. 
