 | Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III - 2007 - 337 sider
...Edgar at Lear's death repeats these sentiments, as Kent says, "Vex not his ghost. Oh, let him pass! ... The weight of this sad time we must obey; / Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say" (5.3.319-30). When Lear's moment of recognition comes — that Cordelia's love was genuine and remained... | |
 | Eugene Chen Eoyang - 2007 - 244 sider
...last lines alone would have put him off the scent. The play ends, you remember, with Edgar saying: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Indeed, the parallel borders on the obscene; at Tiananmen, it was not the oldest who bore the most,... | |
 | Joseph Pearce - 2008 - 224 sider
...delirium of Shakespeare in the words of Edgar as he enunciates the final words of this finest of plays. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.325-28) In Edgar's words we hear a lament for contemporary England, and a lament, perhaps, for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 sider
...delirium of Shakespeare in the words of Edgar as he enunciates the final words of this finest of plays. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.325-28) In Edgar's words we hear a lament for contemporary England, and a lament, perhaps, for... | |
 | John McCormick - 2011 - 261 sider
...by his knowledge. It is also given to Edgar to serve as a concluding tragic Chorus to the poemplay: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. The disparity, and the writer's despair, at the vast distances between Shakespearian poetic truths... | |
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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. 
