 | Alvin B. Kernan - Drama - 1997 - 294 pages
...because he forgives and seeks forgiveness; because he identifies himself with the human community—"as I am a man I think this lady To be my child Cordelia" (4.7.68). Shakespeare's monarchical state endures not because of some mysterious hierarchy-seeking... | |
 | American literature - 1883 - 1002 pages
...witness an actual restoration from the jaws of death to life. And the climax, reached in the words, " Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia" — is as subdued, as low in tone, and as real as had been the preparation for it. Nothing can be more... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; 70 For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am! I am! LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not. If you have poison... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me, 65 For as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child, Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am . LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not. If you have poison for... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...around him. No longer a king, he acknowledges first the simple fact of his manhood, then his fatherhood: 'For as I am a man, I think this lady | To be my child, Cordelia' ( The Tragedy of King Lear, 4.6.52-3, 62-3, emphasis added). Lear's new-found identity is neither the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...of the mark 50 abused ill-used, deceived 57 fond (the word also means "foolish") 62 mainly entirely For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am, I am. LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith, I pray, weep not. If you have poison... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Act iv Sc vii 24 Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 148 pages
...this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To he my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am, I am. LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep... | |
 | Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 68 pages
...prick. Would I were assur'd Of my condition! Pray, do not mock me: I fear I am not in my perfect mind. For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA. And so I am, I am. LEAR. Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...his perfect mind, admits to confusion and ignorance about where he finds himself on waking, and then Do not laugh at me; For as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (1v, vii, 68-70) When last he saw Cordelia, his 'sometime daughter', Lear had an inexhaustible store... | |
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Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man)... 
