 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 240 ページ
...uncertainty: Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. Edgar. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (v, iii, 321-6) There is no emphasis on the restoration of order and no expressed hope in the future.... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 412 ページ
...tragedy ends with Edgar's words - in another quarto given to Albany - which leave the future open: weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V, 3, 322-5) The only certainty is that an epoch has come to an end and it is final. The ending of... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2003 - 332 ページ
...romantic retirement. The closing lines of the play familiar to us from modern editions as Edgar's: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long 10. - for a century and a half reappeared in a radically altered form, though still spoken (as in the... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 ページ
...sustain. Kent: I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: My master calls me, I must not say no. Edgar: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." (5.3.319-27) The state is "gor'd" in that it is covered by gore; life in England is violent and bloody.... | |
 | Darryl Accone - 2004 - 300 ページ
...to the sky. Here, Giddy and Julie thought, it was as if they were living all under heaven. EPILOGUE The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. - King Lear, Act V, Scene iii, lines 325 to 328 On holidays at the coast, Ah Leong would stand looking... | |
 | Marilyn Schroeder - 2005 - 133 ページ
...glance around the room. I knew she could see only light and shadow. I read the last lines of King Lear. "The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." I closed the book. The tears that ran down my cheeks were not for Lear. Susan reached to pat Pinon's... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 2005 - 144 ページ
...earlier; and if in a sense they still sum up the play, it is because they carry a minimum of commitment: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. IV There is one other defining "source" behind King Lear, I think. This is the shape of pastoral romance.... | |
 | Margaret Paxson - 2005 - 408 ページ
...••<! -^r ?i ;'• • jt--j •••/••• ?c? --•-•<> -a Afterword ON LIGHTNESS AND WEIGHT The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. -EDGAR, KING LEAR [I]s heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? -MILAN KUNOERA, THE UNBEARABLE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 ページ
...sustain. KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: 320 My master calls me; I must not say no. EDGAR The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. \The bodies are borne out, all follow with 'a death march' MACBETH INTRODUCTION Macbeth is a dark thriller... | |
 | Jennifer Wallace - 2007 - 193 ページ
...learnt from the action of the play and no safeguards or improvements therefore can be set in place: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V.iii.322-5) Exhausted by the act of witnessing 'so much' atrocity and devoid of ideas for action,... | |
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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. 
