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" And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! "
The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 116
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre, 1596-1622

Daniel Fischlin - History - 1998 - 418 pages
...with individual mortality: And my poor fool is hanged: no, no, no life'1! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never? Similarly, when ayre poets state that true love "can neuer be by bowns confinde," or that "Neuer may...
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Making Sense of Shakespeare

Charles H. Frey - Drama - 1999 - 228 pages
...beloved daughter, Cordelia: And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! To test out in one's performative reading...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...deservings. - O, see, see! LEAR And my poor fool is hanged: no, no, no life? 312 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! Look, her lips, Look there, look there He dies. EDGAR He faints. My lord, my...
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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature, Volume 16

Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...structuring it are not all the same: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...Pray you, undo this button: thank you, Sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! (V.iii.304- 1 0) The parallelism and...
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King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...deservings. - O see, see! LEAR And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life. 282 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! look, her lips, Look there, look there He dies. EDGAR He faints. My lord, my...
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The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

Christopher Pye - Drama - 2000 - 220 pages
...riveting final address. Lear: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...Pray you, undo this button: thank you, Sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! [Dies.] Edgar: He faints! My Lord, my...
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The Net of Nemesis: Studies in Tragic Bond/age

August J. Nigro - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 204 pages
...also to many readers as well: And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...never, never, never, never! Pray you undo this button. (5.3.304-9) The repetition of eleven negatives in these five lines seems to shift the dialectic away...
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Who Are We Now?: Christian Humanism: Christian Humanism And The Global Market

Nicholas Boyle - Religion - 2000 - 364 pages
...death, ineluctable determination in time, can all be read, and loved, in a shoe-strap, or a button: Thou'lt come no more Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Lear's terrible lines are at the boundary of articulate utterance and for Barthes, looking at the photograph...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
..."Chess champion Bobby Fisher is a scacchic nonesuch." nonsense; see sent. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. -King Lear, at the death of C'ordelia Shaw, in Major Barbara, proves his claim that he stands on Shakespeare's...
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy

George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...the passage from King Lear: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt...Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this bunon: thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! (v. iii....
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