| 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... | |
| Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...father to ridicule. Some of the pressure that works on her is apparent in the following remark: Happily, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (1.1.100-104) Bradley observes that this statement "perverts the truth when it implies that to give... | |
| Clement Greenberg - Art - 2000 - 251 pages
...respect to his two older daughters than in his brushing aside what Cordelia means when she says: ... Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. It's Lear's folly to want to hold on to and possess his offspring. Cordelia's view of marriage is almost... | |
| Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 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...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (Ii94-103) In listing what Lear has done for her and her corresponding feelings, Cordelia falls into... | |
| John Green, Paul Negri - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 68 pages
...bred me, loved me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They...my sisters, To love my father all. LEAR. But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA. Ay, good my lord. LEAR. So young, and so untender? CORDELIA. So young,... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 336 pages
...277). mother'; Shaheen, p. 607, records bib84 bond obligation, duty. The word's range lical parallels. They love you all? Haply when I shall wed That lord...never marry like my sisters, To love my father all . 95 LEAR But goes this with thy heart? CORDELIA Ay, good my lord. LEAR So young and so untender? CORDELIA... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...honor you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily when I shall wed 90 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry...my father all. LEAR But goes this with thy heart? CORDELIA Ay, good my lord. LEAR So young and so untender? CORDELIA 96 So young, my lord, and true.... | |
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