 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 1996 - 270 pages
...this state as one of shame and degradation ('our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's'), on the heath, with his wits turned, completely removed from that Symbolic order of which... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...hierarchy, a person must have some extra thing beyond subsistence in order to be more than an animal: "Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (II.iv.266-7). Lear's conclusion upon observing Tom that "man is no more than such a poor,... | |
 | Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - History - 1996 - 312 pages
...implicit in Lear's "O reason not the need! Our basest beggars / Are in the poorest things superfluous. / Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (2.4.265-8). The contrast between superfluities and necessities comes from canon law, which... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...yet he grinds on: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous. Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | Judy Kronenfeld - Drama - 1998 - 404 pages
...Anti-luxuria Tradition. O, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1998 - 440 pages
...corrective to our instinctive acceptance of Lear's heart-wrenching lament as universally applicable. Yet, "Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (2.3.266-67) also bespeaks an awareness of the way in which even pins, wooden pricks, and... | |
 | Jean Baudrillard - Business & Economics - 1998 - 226 pages
...precede them in time). 'O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in the poorest thing superfluous./ Allow not nature more than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's/ writes Shakespeare in King Lear [Act II, Scene iv]. In other words, one of the fundamental... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 372 pages
...had been guilty of an insensitive affront to human dignity . . . 'Oh, reason not the need ;.../... Allow not nature more than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's.' We may understand why working-class people often seem not 'oncoming' to social workers, seem... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...below. 10320 King Lear 0 reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. 45 The Entertainment at Althrope This is Mab. the Mistress-Fair beast's. 10321 KingLear Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes,... | |
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O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 
