 | William Shakespeare - 1990 - 324 sider
...my taking. Whiles I may 'scape, I will preserve myself; and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man,...Brought near to beast; my face I'll grime with filth, io Blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, And with presented nakedness outface The winds and... | |
 | Frangois Laroque - 1993 - 444 sider
...Lear, n, ii, 169-72: KDGAR: . . . and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape 1 hat ever penury, in contempt of man Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth. 58. Othello indirectly assimilates himself to a bear when he says of Desdemona: 'O, she will sing the... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 sider
...he did" (278) when he comes to his father's aid, Edgar transforms himself into "the basest and most poorest shape, / That ever penury, in contempt of man, / Brought near to beast" (II.ii.7-9). In this shape, however, he becomes for Lear a mirror in which Lear can better see himself.... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 sider
...content— as he will be later —with a peasant's identity, but only with ... the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast ... (1-9). Man and beast are coupled again, and the issue is made flesh as Edgar grimes his face and... | |
 | Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 sider
...attend taking. Whiles I may 'scape, I will preserve myself; and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man,...beast; my face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, And with presented nakedness outface The winds and persecutions of the sky.... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 276 sider
...sequence is one first of the disguising of the Edgar who is 'bethought /To take the basest and most poorest shape /That ever penury, in contempt of man, /Brought near to beast', and then, both before and beyond the disguise as 'Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!', the ambiguous erasure... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 sider
...my taking. While I may scape, I will preserve myself; and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man,...beast. My face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots, 10 And with presented nakedness outface The winds and persecutions of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 sider
...my taking. While I may 'scape 5 I will preserve myself, and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury in contempt of man...beast. My face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hair with knots, 10 And with presented nakedness outface The wind and persecution of the... | |
 | John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - 1996 - 260 sider
...even rational: Whiles I may scape I will preserve myself, and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man....beast. My face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, And with presented nakedness out-face The winds and persecutions of the... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1996 - 452 sider
...man as beast, see Edgar as a mad beggar. Edgar declares his intentions: To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man,...beast; my face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots . . . (2-3-7~10) There is much more: the playwright is describing in great... | |
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I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast... 
