 | James P. Lusardi, June Schlueter - 1991 - 260 ページ
...comes from Edgar, with the final lines of the play, in a voice chastened by the weight of experience: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (328-31) This concluding utterance seems a small concession and, surely, a perfunctory comment on the... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1992 - 338 ページ
...tragic conflict, and so events must wait for them. Or, as the concluding lines of King Lear have it: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.323-26) But as for tragedy, Caputo will have none of it: The tragic does not allow suffering its... | |
 | Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 ページ
...become story. He has the last word, and he says only that it is time to speak what we really feel: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (Viii.323-26) We ought to say that the gods are just and a divinity shapes our ends, but what those... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 ページ
...sustain. 201 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. 202 [Exeunt with a dead march. NOTES ON KING LEAR In these notes, the abbreviations used include the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 ページ
...undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 65 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come,... | |
 | Simon Shaw - 1997 - 228 ページ
...opinions had usually been right. He had possessed a fund of sense and had been good company personified. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Philip stood alone in his living room, thinking lines of remembrance, while Verdi's Requiem issued... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 ページ
...such, it is fitting that he defines the last, after-the-deluge sombre mood with which the play ends:6 6 The weight of this sad time we must obey. Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. {v. iii. 324-7) We can detect in the first couplet a suggestion of a refusal to revert back to the... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 ページ
...the final speech by virtue of his position; in the Folio Edgar makes it by virtue of his character: The weight of this sad time we must obey: Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. In a good production, there will be the feeling that nobody quite knows what to say, but something... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 ページ
...storm and a friend and kinsman of its victims, addresses the remaining English forces in King Lear: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (v. iii. 325-8) Here, in accordance with the changed circumstances, explicit retelling - 'Speak what... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin - 1998 - 418 ページ
...Doughtie's note, 449-51. 59. This same subordination is at the core of the concluding lines of King Lear: "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak...young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long" (5.3.324-28; The Riverside Shakespeare, 1295; emphasis added). 60. Doughtie, Lyrics, 312. 61. Ibid.,... | |
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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. 
